Brussels, Belgium
Manneken Pis
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
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Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.
Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.
Istanbul, Turkey
Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.
Istanbul, Turkey
A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.
Gori, Georgia
A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Georgia
A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.
Batumi, Georgia
A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.
Batumi, Georgia
Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.
Batumi, Georgia
The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
Malmö, Sweden
This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.
Helsingør, Denmark
Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Malmö, Sweden
Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.
Malmö, Sweden
Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.
Landskrona, Sweden
This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.
Ängelholm V, Sweden
A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.
Hjärup, Sweden
This cobblestoned medieval-style town was entirely constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.