Isle of Skye, Scotland
Fairy Glen
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
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Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Genk, Belgium
What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Liège, Belgium
A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.
Liège, Belgium
This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.
Waimes, Belgium
The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.
Stekene, Belgium
Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.
Brussels, Belgium
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Brussels, Belgium
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.
Saulces-Monclin, France
The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.
Paris, France
Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.
Y, France
This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.
Arromanches-les-Bains, France
Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.
Saint-Malo, France
Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Vernon, France
A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.
Paris, France
The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.
Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.