Vallorbe, Switzerland
Grottes de Vallorbe
Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.
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Vallorbe, Switzerland
Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.
Arc-et-Senans, France
The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.
Marovoay, Madagascar
The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.
Akhali Atoni, Georgia
The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.
Gagra, Georgia
The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.
Malinska, Croatia
This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.
Koracica, Serbia
This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.
Sukhumi, Georgia
Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Équihen-Plage, France
These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.
Brest, Belarus
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
Littledean, England
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Bruges, Belgium
The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.
Brest, Belarus
A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.
Manchester, Vermont
An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.
Mendon, Vermont
Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.
Richmond, Vermont
This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Stowe, Vermont
The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
South Hero, Vermont
Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.