Bordeaux, France
Miroir d'eau
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
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Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Rabat, Malta
Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.
Qrendi, Malta
This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
San Lawrenz, Malta
Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.
Glasgow, Scotland
This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?
Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Gibraltar
Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Kinderdijk, Netherlands
Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.
Ein Gedi, Israel
As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.
East Jerusalem, Israel
A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.