Stepantsminda, Georgia
Kazbegi Twin Towers
Unexpected work of street art in a remote Caucasus mountain town.
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Stepantsminda, Georgia
Unexpected work of street art in a remote Caucasus mountain town.
Limerick, Ireland
A cynical face-off exposing the cost of war.
Tiverton, Nova Scotia
This massive rock column in Canada is perched on a corner of its base, seeming to defy gravity.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
Leiden, Netherlands
A former plague hospital turned medical museum.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Atchison, Kansas
The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Cusco, Peru
A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.
Leipzig, Germany
Ninety years after his execution, the man accused of starting the Reichstag fire was given a final resting place.
Šilutė, Lithuania
Small glass tiles offering windows into the city's layered past.
Keelung City, Taiwan
Keelung’s century-old French military cemetery.
Garvagh, Northern Ireland
A 21-foot-tall pyramid in a Northern Irish woodland marks the grave of... nobody.
Cairo, Egypt
Art Nouveau beauty hidden deep in Cairo’s Al-Helmiya neighborhood.
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
A tour to spot Scotland's once-vanished birds of prey.
Baconsthorpe, England
A striking ruined manor house in Norfolk, known for its picturesque setting and fascinating history.
Toshima City, Japan
A replica of the boarding house where many pioneering mangaka lived in the 1950s and ’60s.
Hong Kong
This decommissioned fireboat is now an exhibition on Hong Kong’s firefighting and sea rescue history.
Madrid, Spain
Legend has it that the water from this fountain has miraculous healing properties.
Sainte-Marie-du-Lac-Nuisement, France
A museum preserving the remnants of three villages submerged by Der Lake.