Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam Oersoep
A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.
Moscow, Russia
The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.
Moscow, Russia
Former headquarters of the KGB.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Georgia
Underground monastery and fortress.
Georgia
Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.
Georgia
A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.
Kumistavi, Georgia
This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.
Batumi, Georgia
A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.
Batumi, Georgia
Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.
Georgia
This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.
Tbilisi, Georgia
You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.
La Pine, Oregon
A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.
Oswego, New York
This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.
Howes Cave, New York
Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?
Cold Spring, New York
This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Beacon, New York
A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.
Beacon, New York
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
Pine Bush, New York
The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.