Warsaw, Poland
Mały Powstaniec (The Little Insurrectionist)
A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.
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Warsaw, Poland
A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.
Warsaw, Poland
A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
Warsaw, Poland
A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.
Warsaw, Poland
The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.
Warsaw, Poland
After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.
Krakow, Poland
An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.
Krakow, Poland
In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
Krakow, Poland
This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Bailleau-Armenonville, France
A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.
Bogotá, Colombia
Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.
Valencia, Spain
This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.
Navajas, Spain
Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.
Jinja, Uganda
A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."
Kampala, Uganda
The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.
Portugal
An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.
Elvas, Portugal
This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.
Arcozelo, Portugal
Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.
Sintra, Portugal
An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.
Cascais, Portugal
A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.