Llandudno, Wales
Great Orme Tramway
One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.
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Llandudno, Wales
One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.
Deganwy, Wales
This ancient castle has been abandoned since the Edwardian conquest of Wales.
Grainau, Germany
A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.
Lübeck, Germany
A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.
Lübeck, Germany
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Lübeck, Germany
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Lübeck, Germany
The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.
Hamburg, Germany
A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Hamburg, Germany
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Hamburg, Germany
Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Bremen, Germany
One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.
Bremen, Germany
One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.
Sliema, Malta
Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.
Paola, Malta
This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.
Iż-Żejtun, Malta
A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.
Rabat, Malta
Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.
Rabat, Malta
Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.
Madrid, Spain
An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.
Madrid, Spain
After the queen of Spain had a dream where these statues fell and crushed her, they were removed from the palace and given new homes around Madrid.
London, England
Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.