Rome, Italy
The Mouth of Truth
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Places I've been
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Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Vienna, Austria
The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.
Stromboli, Italy
A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Novi Bečej, Serbia
Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Postojna, Slovenia
A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.
Gothenburg, Sweden
A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.
Bucharest, Romania
Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.
Snagov Island, Romania
This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).
Tekija, Serbia
A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Qrendi, Malta
This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.