Lisbon, Portugal
Conserveira de Lisboa
The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.
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Lisbon, Portugal
The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.
Clare, Ireland
A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Dublin, Ireland
A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."
Wonsees, Germany
These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Colfax, Washington
An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Nelson, Nevada
This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.
Wallace, Idaho
After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.
Wallace, Idaho
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
Wallace, Idaho
This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Oberwesel, Germany
Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
Wiesbaden, Germany
This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.
Hamburg, Germany
This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.