Reykjavik, Iceland
Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat
Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.
Sunderland, England
One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."
Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
Tring, England
The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.
Berlin, Germany
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Barcelona, Spain
GaudĂ's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni GaudĂ's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Budapest, Hungary
A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Liverpool, England
Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.
Liverpool, England
The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
Liverpool, England
The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Salem, Massachusetts
The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Glasgow, Scotland
This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.