Barcelona, Spain
Casa BatllĂł
One of Antoni GaudĂ's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
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Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni GaudĂ's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.
Budapest, Hungary
Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.
Budapest, Hungary
This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Brighton, England
Regency-era excess on the English Coast.
Brighton, England
Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.
Lewes, England
Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Wilmington, England
This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.
Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
Hastings, England
Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Waipu, New Zealand
A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.
New York, New York
A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Ban Long, Laos
This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.