Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
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Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Valencia, Spain
Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.
Valencia, Spain
This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.
Valencia, Spain
This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Salzburg, Austria
Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
Bucharest, Romania
This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
Brest, Belarus
Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.
Minsk, Belarus
Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.
Vilnius, Lithuania
An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.
Salzburg, Austria
A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.