Vizille, France
The Death Mask of Gabrielle Danton
The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.
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Vizille, France
The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.
Dundee, Scotland
A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.
Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France
An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.
Risoul, France
Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.
Allauch, France
Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.
Blois, France
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Stockholm, Sweden
Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.
Saint-Nazaire, France
These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Liepāja, Latvia
Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.
Vatican City
If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.
Pilsen, Czechia
Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.
Brno, Czechia
A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.
Lidice, Czechia
The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.
Prague, Czechia
A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.
Krásno, Czechia
A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Dolní Morava, Czechia
The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.