Edinburgh, Scotland
Altered Traffic Signs
An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.
Crieff, Scotland
Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.
Blaenau Gwent, Wales
A memorial to the British politician who spearheaded the National Health Service.
Swansea, Wales
Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.
Norrköping, Sweden
This roundabout was renamed in honor of the Swedish king's royal fender-bender.
Berlin, Germany
The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.
Monistrol de Montserrat, Spain
Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.
Montferri, Spain
A gem of Catalan modernism amidst the vineyards.
Wales
This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.
Schwerin, Germany
Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.
Ronnede, Denmark
A spiralling hourglass-shaped tower rises from the forests in Denmark.
Falun, Sweden
A reproduction of a mysteriously preserved body found in the 18th-century and put on display for years before burial.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.
Stockholm, Sweden
The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.
Stockholm, Sweden
"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."
Stockholm, Sweden
This stone obelisk is a relic of the 17th-century Swedish mile markers.