La Haye-de-Routot, France
La Haye-de-Routot’s Tree Chapels
Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.
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La Haye-de-Routot, France
Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.
Allouville-Bellefosse, France
Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.
Saint-Omer, France
The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.
Athens, Greece
Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.
Paris, France
An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.
Authuille, France
The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.
Rovaniemi, Finland
This Finnish town on the Arctic Circle is trademarked as the Official Hometown of Santa Claus.
Alajuela, Costa Rica
A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.
Athens, Greece
View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Athens, Greece
The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.
Brussels, Belgium
This cannonball has been lodged in the church wall since a 1695 bombardment destroyed the city center.
Bogotá, Colombia
Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.
Bogotá, Colombia
Colombia's first concrete structure doubles as a replica of Versaille's Petit Trianon Belvedere and a symbol for development.
Bogotá, Colombia
Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.
Bogotá, Colombia
Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.
Bogotá, Colombia
This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Paris, France
The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.