Formia, Italy
Eremo di San Michele Arcangelo (Hermitage of Saint Michael the Archangel)
Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.
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Formia, Italy
Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.
Upper Hutt, New Zealand
You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.
Stockholm, Sweden
A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.
Montreal, Québec
One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.
Squamish, British Columbia
As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.
Verona, Italy
One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.
Boyds, Maryland
This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.
Union Township, Missouri
A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Terracina, Italy
A Roman temple perched over an Italian town, forgotten several times over.
Naumburg, Germany
Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?
Riga, Latvia
This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.
Concordia, Kansas
This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.
Padula, Italy
An omelette made with over 1,000 eggs may have been prepared when Holy Roman Emperor Charles V visited this monastery.
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.
Anaheim, California
The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.
Königswinter, Germany
A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.
Townsville, Australia
A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.
Alkmaar, Netherlands
A museum-like shop that has been producing clogs, brushes, and ropes for nearly 200 years.
Hamedan, Iran
The most sacred Jewish shrine in Iran and a fine example of restoration works gone wrong.
Singapore
This statue was a gift to commemorate the Thai monarch's first visit to a foreign land.
Augsburg, Germany
Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.
Singapore
A manifestation of modernist architectural ideas, this massive, multi-purpose building was one of the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.
Cambridge, England
A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.