Paris, France
Small Cannon of the Palais Royal
This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.
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Paris, France
This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.
Paris, France
This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.
Paris, France
This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.
Paris, France
Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A rare example of one of the world's first printed books
Edinburgh, Scotland
One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Reykjavik, Iceland
A monument dedicated to the civil uprisings that took place during the Pots and Pans Revolution.
Bern, Switzerland
This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.
Zermatt, Switzerland
This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.
Botyre (Ayent), Switzerland
Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.
Saint-Léonard, Switzerland
The largest underground lake in Europe.
Boudry, Switzerland
This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.
Gadmen, Switzerland
This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Wasserauen, Switzerland
This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Vallorbe, Switzerland
Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.