Brussels, Belgium
Jeanneke Pis
Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.
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Brussels, Belgium
Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.
Ghent, Belgium
This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.
Bruges, Belgium
A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.
Bruges, Belgium
The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
Mayer, Arizona
An urban laboratory.
Jerome, Arizona
A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Sedona, Arizona
The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Sedona, Arizona
This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Chimney Rock, North Carolina
A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.
Asheville, North Carolina
This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.
Asheville, North Carolina
Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Salley, South Carolina
Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.