Longwood, Saint Helena
Longwood House
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
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Longwood, Saint Helena
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
New York, New York
Wooden pavers represent a 17th-century barrier that gave Wall Street its name.
Schwetzingen, Germany
This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."
Abovyan, Armenia
Unique Armenian monastery from the 13th century, reclaimed by nature but still welcoming visitors.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
Locmariaquer, France
The largest stone moved during the Stone Age once stood proudly in France.
Makarau, New Zealand
A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.
Sighișoara, Romania
This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Prank chair from an 18th-century Danish royal court shows the eternal popularity of fart jokes.
Cham, Germany
A museum of broadcasting with an array of vintage equipment and its own active transmitter.
London, England
A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.
Hong Kong
Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.
Hong Kong
A century-old tower with great harbor views in a quiet space, hidden among skyscrapers.
Fertőrákos, Hungary
On this spot in 1989, nearly a thousand people broke through the Iron Curtain.
Zgornje Gorje, Slovenia
This lush, scenic spot was carved by the turquoise waters of the Radovna.
Naples, Italy
A Greek tomb discovered under a palace in Naples displays ornate funeral decorations.
Lichfield, England
This controversial memorial to the Titanic's captain stands in a peculiar place.
Dusseldorf, Germany
In the middle of a wonderful recreational park, this memorial reminds us of the dark past of this place.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Nuremberg, Germany
A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.
Ödeshög, Sweden
This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.
Easton, England
Amid the ruins of a church on the British island of Portland, a surprising symbol among the headstones.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.