Odense, Denmark
Submerged Sculpture of Hans Christian Andersen
After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.
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Odense, Denmark
After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.
Milarrochy, Scotland
A single oak tree rises out of the waters of Loch Lomond.
Ramnaklev, Sweden
Around 9,000 ties call this museum home.
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Named after a 6th-century saint, who was also a scholar.
Tampaksiring, Indonesia
One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.
Queens, New York
This New York florist also sells traditional tofu pudding.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Rimini, Italy
One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.
Rimini, Italy
This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.
Aswan, Egypt
This eatery is emblematic of the connection between Jamaica and Nubia.
Hyrum, Utah
Built in 1917, this building is home to the last working spring-loaded dance floor in Utah.
Dade City, Florida
Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.
Sanibel, Florida
In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.
Polk City, Florida
The world's largest private aircraft collection.
Panama City Beach, Florida
A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.