Victoria, Malta
The Old Prison
This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.
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Victoria, Malta
This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.
Valletta, Malta
A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.
Paola, Malta
This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.
Iż-Żejtun, Malta
A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.
Zvërnec, Albania
One of 200 religious buildings recognized as a “culture monument.”
Maligrad, Albania
This remote church calls a tiny island its sanctuary.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Durrës, Albania
A fascinating little project dedicated to preserving the charming historic doors of Durrës.
Durrës, Albania
One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.
Durrës, Albania
The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.
Tirana, Albania
A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Several rooms flooded with 35mm film reel.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Coimbra, Portugal
These 400-year-old ruins are all that's left of the monastery where Ines de Castro was assassinated by the King of Portugal.
Alcobaça, Portugal
The corpse bride of Portugal.
São Miguel, Portugal
This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.
Ustka, Poland
This Baltic beauty is rumored to grant a wish and a half.
Krakow, Poland
Legend holds that this knife serves as a chilling reminder of the deadly rivalry between two local builder brothers.
Gdańsk, Poland
One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.
Warsaw, Poland
The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.
Gruta, Lithuania
Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.
Klaipėda, Lithuania
A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.