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Arles, France
Arles Amphitheatre
This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.
43.6786, 4.6308
Arles, France
Arles's Cryptoporticous
A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.
43.6767, 4.6276
Colmar, France
The Isenheim Altarpiece
This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.
48.0796, 7.3554
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Gräinskapell
This small chapel built into rock is the oldest place of worship in Luxembourg.
49.6057, 6.1351
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bock Casemates
An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.
49.6117, 6.1367
Trier, Germany
Porta Nigra
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
49.7597, 6.6441
Trier, Germany
Karl Marx House
The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.
49.7539, 6.6357
Liège, Belgium
The Lucifer of Liège
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
50.6410, 5.5710
Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp Ruien
An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.
51.2191, 4.4029
Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Waag
Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.
52.3727, 4.9003
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oudekerksplein
This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.
52.3744, 4.8980
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Penis Fountain
Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.
52.3726, 4.8978
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Torture Museum
Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
52.3674, 4.8906
Santiago, Mexico
Tropic of Cancer Monument
This spot along the 23.5 degree north parallel marks the northern boundary of the tropics.
23.4478, -109.7031
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
The Arch of Cabo San Lucas
A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.
22.8760, -109.8947
Nîmes, France
Maison Carrée Reconstructed Inscription
The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.
43.8384, 4.3559
Bratislava, Slovakia
Cumil the Sewer Worker
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.
48.1429, 17.1089
Bratislava, Slovakia
Napoleon's Army Soldier
An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.
48.1435, 17.1080
Bratislava, Slovakia
Bratislava Old Town Hall's Cannonball
Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.
48.1438, 17.1087
Bratislava, Slovakia
Stone Lizards of Kapitulská
Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.
48.1436, 17.1049
Brno, Czechia
Brno Ossuary
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
49.1966, 16.6089
Brno, Czechia
Brno Astronomical Clock
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
49.1948, 16.6086
Brno, Czechia
Brno Dragon
This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.
49.1931, 16.6088
Brno, Czechia
The Czech's Capuchin Crypt
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
49.1915, 16.6098
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