Naples, Italy
Fontana del Gigante
This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.
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Naples, Italy
This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Bristol, England
Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.
Bournemouth, England
The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Lisbon, Portugal
Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.
Glasgow, Scotland
A ceramic postbox where visitors can post original poems and creative messages.
Southampton, England
Some of the last remaining relics of one of World War II's most important invasions.
Mayo, Ireland
When the tide is high, you can see the Atlantic pushing up through a deep, jagged hole in the rock.
Vegacervera, Spain
The spectacular geological formations make it one of the most impressive caves in Europe.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Portsmouth, England
Three tiny islands in a Portsmouth pond are at the center of disputed land claims from a number of competing micronations.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Craighat, Scotland
A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Aarhus, Denmark
This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.
Roche, England
This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.
Loddington, England
The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.
Barcelona, Spain
This store decorated with Japanese and underground pop culture items has been the centre of Barcelona alternative fashion scenes for more than a decade.