Glasgow, Scotland
Tchai-Ovna House of Tea
Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.
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Glasgow, Scotland
Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.
Corsham, England
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.
Iceland
A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.
Krásno, Czechia
A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.
Ávila, Spain
These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.
Madrid, Spain
Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Lisse, Netherlands
Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.
Hamilton, Ontario
305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.
Paris, France
A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Oxford, England
J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.
Skipton, England
Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Laois, Ireland
A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.
London, England
Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.
Zagreb, Croatia
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.
Potsdam, Germany
A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.
Skagaströnd, Iceland
This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.
York, England
A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.
Lima, Peru
A market for witches is hidden within a train station.
Fortingall, Scotland
Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.