Estonia
Hara Submarine Base
A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.
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Estonia
A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.
Kaali, Estonia
Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Rovaniemi, Finland
Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.
Helsinki, Finland
An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.
Helsinki, Finland
This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Berlin, Germany
A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Stockholm, Sweden
An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Lviv, Ukraine
A peculiarly shaped brass sculpture hidden in a courtyard in central Lviv
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Kyiv, Ukraine
An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Kyiv, Ukraine
When you've got to go, you've got to go.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The deepest metro station in the world.