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Muurhuizen (Wall Houses)

Amersfoort, Netherlands

Muurhuizen (Wall Houses)

An entire street built on the foundation of the first wall of Amersfoort. It has 61 national heritage sites in the street itself.

Facade of the former Mármoles Molina shop

Madrid, Spain

Facade of the Former Mármoles Molina Shop

This protected 19th-century façade once housed Mármoles Molina, a company specializing in funerary monuments.

Memorial lightboxes

Rīga, Latvia

Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum

A somber place of memory and reflection, that tells the story of Riga's Jewish community before and during World War II.

Chapel of Expiation

Paris, France

Chapel of Expiation

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

The Liberty Bridge replaced the destroyed Ferenc József Bridge in 1946.

Budapest, Hungary

Ruins of the Ferenc József Bridge

When the water level in the Danube in central Budapest is low enough, there is a secret site telling the history of one of the most iconic bridges of the city.

Statue of Žorik

Tallinn, Estonia

Statue of Žorik

A bronze memorial to Tallinn’s most famous, and most elusive, stray dog, erected while he was still alive.

‘Deep Silent Gaze’

Limassol, Cyprus

‘Deep Silent Gaze’

A children's mosaic in Limassol using deep-sea creature patterns to honor young lives lost across several genocides, including Cyprus’s own 1974 wounds.

Exchange Palace (Tőzsdepalota)

Budapest, Hungary

Exchange Palace (Tőzsdepalota)

A monumental palace that began as a stock exchange, became the headquarters of Hungarian Television, and spent years largely unused.

Puerta del Hospital de la Latina

Madrid, Spain

Puerta del Hospital de la Latina

After decades of neglect in a municipal storage unit this medieval jewel was given a new life in the late 1950s.

The Peeping Tom of Tallinn

Tallinn, Estonia

The Peeping Tom of Tallinn

This figure was carved in the likeness of a voyeur, so that every time he spied across the street, he would find only himself staring back.

The Church of the Resurrection within the Great Cemetery.

Riga, Latvia

Great Cemetery

A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.

The stone in question.

Helsinki, Finland

The Fire Captain's Stone

Moved after its owner's death, this granite seat left the house with a haunting on its hands.

The Birdhouse Tree of Riga

Rīga, Latvia

The Birdhouse Tree of Riga

A bare tree in Riga’s Esplanāde is transformed into an extraordinary vertical neighbourhood by scores of colourful bird nesting boxes clustered across its trunk and branches.

Puerta de los Osos

Madrid, Spain

Puerta de los Osos

This striking gate in Carabanchel is a modern expression of Madrid's centuries-old connection to bears, the animal that has symbolized the city for generations

Monumental Spanish Cities Mosaic

Madrid, Spain

Monumental Spanish Cities Mosaic

The biggest outdoor modern mosaic in Madrid

Pedestrian passageway

London, England

Greathead Tunneling Shield

At Bank station, the tunneling shield that built the original Waterloo & City line tunnel is hiding in plain sight

Madrid Rock Monolith

Madrid, Spain

Madrid Rock Monolith

This controversial monolith—topped with the iconic Madrid Rock logo and a heavy-metal hand gesture—marks the site of what was once Madrid’s most popular record store

Woman Holding a Branch

Madrid, Spain

Woman Holding a Branch

High above one of Madrid's busiest streets, a woman nobody can identify has been watching passersby for nearly a century

With the stone that names the sculptor

Madrid, Spain

LLama del Perú

Gifted by Madrid's Peruvian community, this unusual statue celebrates the enduring ties between Peru and Spain

Monument to Manolete

Madrid, Spain

Monument to Manolete

A humble monument outside a metro station to the greatest bullfighter in history

Lenné-Dreieck as it appears today

Berlin, Germany

Lenné-Dreieck

A small wedge of East Berlin was once on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall

City of Justice

Vilnius, Lithuania

City of Justice

Another beautiful spot in the hidden universe of Eames Demetrios.

Pappa's forest is full of life.

Kittilä, Finland

HaliPuu Forest

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

The tripoint monument from Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Enontekiö, Finland

Treriksröset

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

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