Bruges, Belgium
Basilica of the Holy Blood
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
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Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Tallinn, Estonia
The Guardian of Tallinn.
Rome, Italy
A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.
Rome, Italy
Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Gubbio, Italy
Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Prague, Czechia
Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.
Tallinn, Estonia
The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.
Lyon, France
Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.
Juodkrantė, Lithuania
Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.
Turnov, Czechia
Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Famagusta, Cyprus
A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.
Rilski manastir, Bulgaria
This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.