Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Waag
Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The history and future of cannabis.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
In 1988, jazz legend Chet Baker fell to his death from a window of this hotel facing Amsterdam Centraal.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A hidden church in a hidden courtyard tells the story of the Miracle of Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.
Kinderdijk, Netherlands
Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.
Cahors, France
A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Padirac, France
This impressive chasm is one of the longest natural underground cavities in the world.
Bouziès, France
The beautiful bas-relief lines a sliver of a 19th-century walking path between two charming French villages.
Albi, France
A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.
Bélesta, France
Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Jaca, Spain
This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.
Estella, Spain
A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.
Quedlinburg, Germany
The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.
Blankenburg (Harz), Germany
A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.
Thale, Germany
This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.