Segovia, Spain
Segovia Aqueduct
One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'
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Segovia, Spain
One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'
Madrid, Spain
The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.
Madrid, Spain
Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.
Madrid, Spain
An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
San Miguel, Spain
A small house in Tazones, completely covered in shells.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Laboe, Germany
This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Olomouc, Czechia
Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.
Olomouc, Czechia
An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Madrid, Spain
Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.
Prague, Czechia
The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.