Alghero, Italy
Neptune's Grotto
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Places I've been
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Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Seville, Spain
Drink the 'Blood of Christ' in this Roman Catholic fever dream.
Seville, Spain
A 16th-century Andalusian palace.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Istanbul, Turkey
The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.
Istanbul, Turkey
A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.
Istanbul, Turkey
This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Tallinn, Estonia
This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.
Tallinn, Estonia
Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.
Budapest, Hungary
A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.
Budapest, Hungary
A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Roche, England
This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Keswick, England
Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Penzance, England
A circle stone within a stone circle.
Trethevy, England
A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.