Tbilisi, Georgia
Bank of Georgia Building
Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.
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Tbilisi, Georgia
Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.
Tbilisi, Georgia
With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Prague, Czechia
A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Prague, Czechia
A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.
Prague, Czechia
The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.
Prague, Czechia
An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.
Prague, Czechia
A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.
Prague, Czechia
A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.
Prague, Czechia
Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.
Prague, Czechia
Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.
Prague, Czechia
One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.
Prague, Czechia
The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.
Prague, Czechia
A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.
Prague, Czechia
Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.
Vienna, Austria
One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.
Bologna, Italy
Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.
Berlin, Germany
A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.
Berlin, Germany
Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.