Alkmaar, Netherlands
J. Boom
A museum-like shop that has been producing clogs, brushes, and ropes for nearly 200 years.
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Alkmaar, Netherlands
A museum-like shop that has been producing clogs, brushes, and ropes for nearly 200 years.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Arnhem, Netherlands
The largest airborne operation in history was launched to capture this bridge.
Arnhem, Netherlands
Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Genk, Belgium
This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.
Benalmádena, Spain
A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.
Manchester, England
Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.
Esztergom, Hungary
An abandoned cable car station located on the Danube stands like a haunted house above the river.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Budapest, Hungary
This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Budapest, Hungary
A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Ulm, Germany
The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.
Uchon, France
Erosion left these fascinating granite formations strewn across fields and mountains in Burgundy.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.