Kiruna, Sweden
Kiruna Cage Balconies
These coffin-like Brutalist balconies were inspired by a nearby mine.
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Kiruna, Sweden
These coffin-like Brutalist balconies were inspired by a nearby mine.
Lund, Sweden
A living descendant of the famous tree that helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity.
Älvkarleby S, Sweden
Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.
Vimmerby, Sweden
A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.
Visby, Sweden
A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.
Uppsala, Sweden
Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.
Kvarntorp, Sweden
An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.
Ystad, Sweden
According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.
Borgholm, Sweden
Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.
Pernik, Bulgaria
Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.
Vidin, Bulgaria
The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Ardino, Bulgaria
An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.
Karlukovo, Bulgaria
The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."
Venice, Italy
A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.
Venice, Italy
According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.
Berlin, Germany
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Berlin, Germany
A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Munich, Germany
A subterranean display of public art and architecture.