Lisbon, Portugal
Santa Justa Lift
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
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Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Liverpool, England
Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.
Liverpool, England
Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.
Brighton, England
Regency-era excess on the English Coast.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
London, England
A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.