Venice, Italy
Giant Hands of Venice’s Grand Canal
A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.
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Venice, Italy
A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.
Venice, Italy
Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.
Stonehaven, Scotland
The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Krásno, Czechia
A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.
Wonsees, Germany
These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.
Wunsiedel, Germany
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
Neustadt am Kulm, Germany
A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.