Paris, France
Paris Padlocks of Love
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
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Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Bern, Switzerland
The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Riga, Latvia
Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.
Riga, Latvia
A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.
Riga, Latvia
A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Podoštra, Croatia
Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Bender, Moldova
A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.
Tiraspol, Moldova
A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Sevastopol, Ukraine
In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.
Vis, Croatia
Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.
Komiža, Croatia
An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.