Taipei, Taiwan
Real Guts Café
Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.
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Taipei, Taiwan
Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.
Kruševac, Serbia
Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Völklingen, Germany
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Venice, Italy
In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.
Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Venice, Italy
Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Venice, Italy
A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.
Naples, Italy
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
Naples, Italy
This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Naples, Italy
A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.
Naples, Italy
In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Naples, Italy
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Stockholm, Sweden
A concrete Picasso in the middle of a student housing complex on the outskirts of Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sweden
Hidden in plain sight, Sweden's official ordnance datum is now abandoned.
Stockholm, Sweden
"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.