Honfleur, France
Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
This mountaintop mariner’s church is packed with model ships and nautical art while hosting an annual maritime festivity for the townsfolk below.
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Honfleur, France
This mountaintop mariner’s church is packed with model ships and nautical art while hosting an annual maritime festivity for the townsfolk below.
Honfleur, France
One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.
Pierre-Châtel, France
According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.
Annecy, France
A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.
Bruère-Allichamps, France
Designed to mark the geographical center of France.
Paris, France
The site where two doves fell in love.
Munich, Germany
Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.
Bremen, Germany
One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.
Dresden, Germany
A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.
Berlin, Germany
You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.
Berlin, Germany
The world's first motorway was used as a racetrack until the late 1990s.
Konstanz, Germany
Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.
Magdeburg, Germany
A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.
Potsdam, Germany
Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.
Magdeburg, Germany
This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.
Potsdam, Germany
One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.
Varel, Germany
This 165-foot water tower has been supplying the residents of Varel with drinking water for more than a century.
Istanbul, Turkey
One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.
İzmir, Turkey
This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Also known as the Limete Tower, la Tour de l'Échangeur can be seen from almost everywhere in Kinshasa.
Aswan, Egypt
This eatery is emblematic of the connection between Jamaica and Nubia.
Aswan, Egypt
This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.
Ethiopia
According to one local legend, this image was created during a battle between a wild lioness and the archangel Michael.
Tagum, Philippines
This massive Roman Catholic rosary is composed entirely of wood.