A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

A unique art center and shop just below a United Nations Checkpoint in central Nicosia.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.