Places Edited by halkoss

Europe's longest Hornbeam tunnel.

Cervantes’ Don Quixote lives on in mosaics at this La Mancha winery.

A museum dedicated to the stories and folklore of Småland, Sweden.

Visitors to Kuala Lumpur can drink in the city’s offerings at the Royal Selangor pewter factory.

Exploring the Netherlands’ textile past and future under one roof.

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

This landmark building, from notable Los Angeles architects, is being restored.

This atmospheric museum honors a family who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation of Latvia.

Unique Armenian monastery from the 13th century, reclaimed by nature but still welcoming visitors.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

A hidden highland of peaks and pastures, largely unchanged since medieval times.

Modest but unique pyramid built for a pharaoh has been reduced to a “heap of stone.”

This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.

A goblet-shaped rock that, according to lore, is the home of an elven hermit.

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.

A sculpture in Hyannis commemorates Chief Sachem Iyannough of the Mattachiest tribe.

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

A rare surviving stone building from the Spanish colonial era.

Marker for a long-gone electric trolley line that spurred the economic development of West Asheville.

A museum of broadcasting with an array of vintage equipment and its own active transmitter.

Prank chair from an 18th-century Danish royal court shows the eternal popularity of fart jokes.

A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.

A monument completed by a Third Reich sculptor in 1935 in Ankara's central park encourages Turks to "be proud, work hard, and have trust."

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.