Marazion, England
St Michael's Mount
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
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Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Barbâtre, France
This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.
Gubbio, Italy
The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.
Seville, Spain
An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.
Racine, Wisconsin
The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Poland, Maine
This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.
Suita-shi, Japan
Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
São Miguel, Portugal
Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.
Berlin, Germany
A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.
Larache, Morocco
A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.
Dublin, Ireland
The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.
Kaftarhana, Uzbekistan
The foundation of this ancient stupa dates back to the 1st-century.
Koyulus, Kazakhstan
This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Kyoto, Japan
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Madrid, Spain
Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.
Bucharest, Romania
The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Omaha, Nebraska
An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.
Westminster, Massachusetts
One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.