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Rock up to the Floyd Country Store on a Friday night for live music.

Floyd, Virginia

Floyd Country Store

Every Friday night, Appalachian string-bands turn this country store and soda fountain into a raucous jamboree.

The original Woolworth lunch counter is largely intact at the museum.

Greensboro, North Carolina

Site of the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Old swivel rails

Fort Washington, Maryland

Fort Washington

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

George Washington's Distillery

Alexandria, Virginia

George Washington's Distillery

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

A bottle of Washington's whiskey.

Alexandria, Virginia

George Washington’s Whiskey

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

“Pennies from Heaven.” 

Falls Church, Virginia

'Pennies from Heaven'

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

The Pike

Arlington, Virginia

The Pike

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

Dingolfing Beinhaus

Dingolfing, Germany

Dingolfing Ossuary

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

Broken Glass Villa.

Passau, Germany

Broken Glass Villa

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

Main organ at St. Stephen's

Passau, Germany

Europe's Largest Pipe Organ

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Schöner Náci

Bratislava, Slovakia

Schöner Náci

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

Hans Christian Andersen statue

Bratislava, Slovakia

Hans Christian Andersen Statue

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

Posmievačik peeking from his alcove.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Posmievačik

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

Stone Lizards of Kapitulská

Bratislava, Slovakia

Stone Lizards of Kapitulská

Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.

The Bratislava Witch's peaceful repose belies the dark history behind the artist's inspiration.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Girl With Ravens (The Bratislava Witch)

An unconventional memorial to the women burned as witches in Bratislava.

Most SNP

Bratislava, Slovakia

Most SNP

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Fairytale Grotto Line

Graz, Austria

Fairytale Grotto Line

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

Kunsthaus Graz

Graz, Austria

Kunsthaus Graz

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

Trakošćan Castle

Trakošćan, Croatia

Trakošćan Castle

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

Viscardigasse

Munich, Germany

Viscardigasse

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

View of the New Town Hall and the Glockenspiel

Munich, Germany

Rathaus-Glockenspiel

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Lago di Alleghe

Alleghe, Italy

Lago di Alleghe

A devastating landslide accidentally created this tourist hotspot.

Death cutting the life-thread

Munich, Germany

Asamkirche

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The devil's footprint or a clever tourist trap? Both?

Munich, Germany

Der Teufelstritt (The Devil's Footprint)

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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