Zaandam, Netherlands
The Clog Museum
A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.
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Zaandam, Netherlands
A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Stockholm, Sweden
Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.
Oxford, England
One of Europe's oldest libraries.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Newquay, England
Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.
Cardiff, Wales
Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.
Rome, Italy
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.