Lisbon, Portugal
Santa Justa Lift
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
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Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Lisbon, Portugal
One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.
Lagoa, Portugal
Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Évora, Portugal
Don't miss the xylotheque (a library of wood) at this museum devoted to cork.
Atlanta, Georgia
For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.
Rome, Italy
See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala
For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Morlaix, France
An unexpected mix of medieval buildings and modern street art.
Wendover, Utah
A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.
Lemon Grove, California
Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.
Xilitla, Mexico
This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This beautiful fountain was sculpted by a female artist who was ahead of her time.
Cape Town, South Africa
Breakfast and lunch in a canteen where the servers and kitchen staff are prison inmates.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Laxe, Spain
Tiny Spanish beach covered in sea glass.
Malargüe, Argentina
An otherworldly reserve of one of Earth’s densest volcanic fields and the world’s largest guanaco migration.
Sopot, Poland
This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Prague, Czechia
A colossal statue of a woman hugging a modern building.
Knislinge, Sweden
A bronze, peeing self-portrait protests unequal inheritance rights.