Birgu, Malta
The Executioner's House
The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.
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Birgu, Malta
The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.
Madrid, Spain
A rare set of strings by famed instrument maker Antonio Stradivarius is on display in the Royal Palace.
Hunstanton, England
All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.
Tallinn, Estonia
A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.
Manises, Spain
Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.
London, England
A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.
Kuldīga, Latvia
The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.
Madrid, Spain
The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.
Friskney, England
The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.
Alicante, Spain
A well-restored ancient archaeology site gives a real feel for life during the Roman age.
Busveal, England
The excellent acoustics of this natural amphitheater made it a popular preaching spot for the founder of the Methodist Church.
London, England
The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.
Waddesdon, England
The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.
Coventry, England
All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.
Pembroke, Wales
A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.
Ashwell, England
Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”
Timor-Leste
No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.
Mġarr, Malta
Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.
Broadstone, England
The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.
Sillamäe, Estonia
This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.
Sheffield, England
One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.
Hope Valley, England
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.