Verviers, Belgium
Notre-Dame des Récollets
This statue of the Virgin and Child is said to have miraculously changed its position during the 1692 earthquake.
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Verviers, Belgium
This statue of the Virgin and Child is said to have miraculously changed its position during the 1692 earthquake.
Theux, Belgium
Europe's longest Hornbeam tunnel.
Rochefort, Belgium
This work of art, which took 35 years to complete, has a motorway running through it.
Sankt Vith, Belgium
Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.
Andenne, Belgium
Old signage above the doors of a church with an amusing backstory.
Herve, Belgium
A Belgian town divided its water supply into six troughs, each with a specific use.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam School landmark combining a museum and social housing.
Hamburg, Germany
Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Hamburg, Germany
Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
In 1907, writer Nikolaus Welter invented a fictitious Voodoo tradition around this statue of a reclining Christ — which has since become a reality.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
A haunting painting meant to capture the calamity of World War I.
London, England
A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.
Kiischpelt, Luxembourg
This modest monument marks the only point of intersection between longitude and latitude in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
London, England
Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”
Lyon, France
The world's first funicular powered by a steam engine.
Metz, France
A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A pillar is all that remains of a church built to honor a peculiar miracle.
London, England
Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.
London, England
A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.
London, England
The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.
London, England
These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.