Budapest, Hungary
Columbo Statue
Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.
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Budapest, Hungary
Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.
Paris, France
One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.
San Francisco, California
Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.
Alexandria, Virginia
This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.
Fairfax, Virginia
Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.
Estonia
This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.
Alrewas, England
In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
Troy, New York
The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.
Enontekiö, Finland
This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Crespano del Grappa, Italy
This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.
Barcelona, Spain
A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.
Nekoma, North Dakota
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Madrid, Spain
The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.
Madrid, Spain
Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.
Murmansk, Russia
The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Tonopah, Nevada
The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.
Alameda, California
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
Lourmarin, France
The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.