Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France
Fort Boyard
Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France
Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.
La Rochelle, France
No one knows the story behind the mysterious feline perched on this rooftop.
La Rochelle, France
A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.
Zurich, Switzerland
Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.
La Calamine, Belgium
This little patch of Europe remained neutral for more than a century because of a mine.
Zedelgem, Belgium
Formerly a munitions depot and World War II POW camp, now a nature reserve.
Leuven, Belgium
Where George Lemaître discovered the expanding nature of the universe.
Rochefort, Belgium
This work of art, which took 35 years to complete, has a motorway running through it.
Bruges, Belgium
The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.
Heuvelland, Belgium
Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.
Tervuren, Belgium
A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.
Genk, Belgium
What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.
Bucharest, Romania
This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.
Bucharest, Romania
Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Brussels, Belgium
This enormous steel tube is the biggest speaking horn in the world.
Ostend, Belgium
A piece of the front end of a British cruiser that was used as a block ship in World War I.
Bruges, Belgium
A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.
Brussels, Belgium
A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.