Porto, Portugal
Livraria Lello
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
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Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Arlington, Virginia
A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.
Ballasalla, Isle of Man
Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
Nariño, Colombia
A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Kobe, Japan
The first and oldest mosque in Japan.
Sale, England
The materials from one of the United Kingdom’s most famous animation studios are now preserved in a suburban library.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Québec City, Québec
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
Hamburg, Germany
A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.
Hamburg, Germany
A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.
Jatinga, India
A small village in India bears witness to the end of birds' lives every September.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana
Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.
Singapore
A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.
Hobro, Denmark
A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.