Venice, Italy
St. Mark's Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio)
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
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Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Capri, Italy
The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.
Manama, Bahrain
Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Frankfurt, Germany
Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.
Tallinn, Estonia
The Guardian of Tallinn.
Tromsø, Norway
The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.
Stockholm, Sweden
Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.
Famagusta, Cyprus
A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.
Mersin Province, Turkey
Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.
Auckland, New Zealand
A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.
Rotorua, New Zealand
Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Cervantes, Australia
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.
Halong City, Vietnam
Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.
Hong Kong
Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Dover, England
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.