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The Seal Woman (Kópakonan)

Kalsoy, Faroe Islands

The Seal Woman (Kópakonan)

This statue commemorates the tale of the fisherman who captured a Kópakonan by stealing her skin while she was transformed as a woman.

Museum of Living in Communism

Brașov, Romania

Museum of Living in Communism

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

Bar of Ritz Hotel, París where Hemingway and Fitzgerald met

Paris, France

Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

Charmille of Haut-Marêt

Theux, Belgium

Charmille of Haut-Marêt

Europe's longest Hornbeam tunnel.

Carousel

Kinnared, Sweden

Gunnar’s Carousel

Deep in the Swedish forest hides a forgotten water-powered carousel.

The path into the cave.

Shangfu Village, Taiwan

Black Devil Cave

This oceanfront cave was the site of a 17th-century massacre.

Entremontes Winery’s Tile Mosaics

Quintanar de la Orden, Spain

Entremontes Winery’s Tile Mosaics

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

The skeletal nave.

Tintern, Wales

Tintern Abbey

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

Front of Treowen house at sunrise

Wonastow, Wales

Treowen Manor

A 17th-century manor house with a Tudor garden and some chilling history.

Dalkeith Tolbooth

Dalkeith, Scotland

Dalkeith Tolbooth

This building has been a courtroom, a prison, and the location of the last public hanging in Dalkeith.

Tree of Imagination.

Lower Peover, England

Tree of Imagination

A hollowed tree transformed into a fairytale wonder.

Pinocchio and Mickey Mouse with breasts.

Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Pariwat Ratchasongkram

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

Virgilkapelle (St Virgil’s Chapel)

Vienna, Austria

Virgilkapelle (St Virgil’s Chapel)

Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.

Front Gate

Pune, India

Shaniwar Wada

This 18th century Marathi fort is adorned with a spiked front gate meant to repel enemy elephants.

The 2005 Cyrano de Bergerac statue, by Mauro Corda.

Bergerac, France

Statues of Cyrano de Bergerac

Two very different statues celebrate the literary legacy of this medieval Dordogne town.

1920s Hotel Postcard

Hood River, Oregon

Columbia Gorge Hotel

The Columbia Gorge Hotel sits as a beacon in the Columbia River Gorge and is also said to be haunted.

View of Monongahela National Forest from Top of Olson Fire Tower

Hambleton, West Virginia

Olson Observation Tower

Climb the tallest remaining fire lookout tower in West Virginia for unparalleled views—if you dare.

Giacometti Halle

Zurich, Switzerland

Giacometti Halle

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

Workshop

Villacañas, Spain

Museo Etnográfico del Silo

Go underground to find a collection representing the history of this village in the heart of La Mancha.

Notre-Dame des Récollets

Verviers, Belgium

Notre-Dame des Récollets

This statue of the Virgin and Child is said to have miraculously changed its position during the 1692 earthquake.

At The Well, guests can dine in large, wooden gazebos or sit by the fire pit for snacks and drinks.

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

The Well at Jordan’s Farm

This rustic, seasonal eatery sits on a family-owned produce farm specializing in sustainable agriculture.

Museum of Legends

Ljungby, Sweden

Museum of Legends

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

Royal College of Physicians Museum

London, England

Royal College of Physicians Museum

An extraordinary collection of artifacts spanning 500 years of medical history.

Inside The Great Stone Circle at sunset.

Fountain City, Wisconsin

Kinstone

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

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