Berlin, Germany
Pergamon Museum
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
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Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
Selçuk, Turkey
The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.
Gokdepe, Turkmenistan
This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Tokyo, Japan
An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Hatsukaichi, Japan
This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.
Shanghai, China
The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.
Shanghai, China
This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.
Beijing, China
This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.
Beijing, China
The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.