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Traffic Light Tree

London, England

Traffic Light Tree

A student driver's nightmare.

Plaque marking the Texan Embassy

London, England

The Embassy of the Republic of Texas

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Lullaby Factory
Permanently Closed

London, England

Lullaby Factory

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
Permanently Closed

London, England

The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A Nicobar Tree Shrew in the Grant Museum of Zoology

London, England

Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

London, England

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Platform 9 3/4

London, England

Platform 9 3/4

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The Hardy Tree
Permanently Closed

London, England

The Hardy Tree

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Venta Rapids

Kuldīga, Latvia

The Venta Rapid

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

The Tartu Old Observatory

Tartu, Estonia

The Struve Geodetic Arc

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

The statue of Bruce Lee in Mostar circa 2021

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bruce Lee Sculpture of Mostar

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

Partisan Memorial Cemetery

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Partisan Memorial Cemetery

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

Stari Most

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Stari Most

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A simbol of Postojna Cave - Brilijant

Postojna, Slovenia

Postojna Caves

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

Proteus anguinus

Postojna, Slovenia

Olm

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

Predjama Castle, Slovenia

Predjama, Slovenia

Predjama Castle

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

Skocjan Caves

Matavun, Slovenia

Skocjan Caves

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

Orlando's Column in Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Orlando's Column in Dubrovnik

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

Luxury Ship, 1974 by Drago Jurak

Zagreb, Croatia

Croatian Museum of Naïve Art

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

The wunderkammer-esque cathedral treasury of remains

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik Cathedral Treasury (Riznica Katedrale)

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Nine Views

Zagreb, Croatia

Nine Views

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Walls cut through the vegetation in Ston. (Saskia van de Nieuwenhof/Flickr)

Ston, Croatia

Walls of Ston

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

Dubrovnik Maskeron

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik Maskeron

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

Taxidermied frogs spend a day on the lake at Froggyland

Split, Croatia

Froggyland

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

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