Niagara Falls, New York
Love Canal Containment Zone
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
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Niagara Falls, New York
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
Medina, New York
This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.
Bad Blankenburg, Germany
The world's first kindergarten.
Basel, Switzerland
This 42-foot tribute to the workforce still reminds us to pause and recharge.
Basel, Switzerland
This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.
Basel, Switzerland
An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.
Basel, Switzerland
This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.
Bern, Switzerland
One of the few places in the world that let's you legally relieve yourself on a UNESCO world heritage site.
Bern, Switzerland
The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.
Bern, Switzerland
This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.
Bern, Switzerland
This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Zermatt, Switzerland
This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.
Brusio, Switzerland
This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Zurich, Switzerland
A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.
Zurich, Switzerland
One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.
Zurich, Switzerland
This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.
Zurich, Switzerland
This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.