Rome, Italy
Elephant and Obelisk
A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.
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Rome, Italy
A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Rome, Italy
The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.
Bears, Netherlands
This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.
Oyer, Norway
This mountainside mural of a person carrying a torch was created for the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Avesta, Sweden
The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.
Falun, Sweden
A centuries-old copper mine that once provided two thirds of the world's copper supply.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
Believed to be the country's tallest waterfall, the Njupeskär is actually much smaller.
Celles, France
Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.
Rovaniemi, Finland
If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.
Rovaniemi, Finland
Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.