Places Edited by gretchenmora

Pay your respects to three butterfat queens.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.