Barnard Castle, England
The Silver Swan
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
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Barnard Castle, England
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
Oslo, Norway
Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.
Singapore
Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Singapore
A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.
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.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
Aix-en-Provence, France
Balconies that have a most unusual accent.
Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.
San Gimignano, Italy
These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.
Florence, Italy
In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Oslo, Norway
One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."
Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.