Lisbon, Portugal
Santa Justa Lift
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
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Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Lisbon, Portugal
Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Porto, Portugal
Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
A Coruña, Spain
The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.
Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Barcelona, Spain
A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.
Barcelona, Spain
The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.
Holy Island of Lindisfarne, England
Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.
Houghton le Spring, England
The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Ribadeo, Spain
Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.
Lugo, Spain
Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.
Jerusalem, Israel
After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.
Jerusalem, Israel
The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.