Braga, Portugal
Bom Jesus do Monte
A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.
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Braga, Portugal
A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.
Consett, England
These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.
Blantyre, Scotland
The only statue ever crafted by award-winning animator Ray Harryhausen.
Durham, England
An unusual stone chair can be found on the banks of the River Wear, not far from Durham Cathedral.
Bingen, Germany
The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Dunedin, New Zealand
One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.
Darmstadt, Germany
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Frankfurt, Germany
The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.
Kassel, Germany
At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
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.
Gdańsk, Poland
This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.
Kartuzy, Poland
The coffin-shaped church was once home to monks who slept in coffins.
Nokia, Finland
This honeycomb-textured tafone looks like a petrified troll head.
Turku, Finland
Pigduck of Turku.
Ylöjärvi, Finland
This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.
Årjäng SV, Sweden
This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.
Billund, Denmark
An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.
Drumheller, Alberta
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
Aarhus, Denmark
This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.
Hvide Sande, Denmark
Along this stretch of beach in Denmark resides several massive bastions of energy.
Cádiz, Spain
The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.
Malaga, Spain
This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.