Florence, Italy
Vasari Corridor
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
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Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Barcelona, Spain
This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.
Barcelona, Spain
An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.
Barcelona, Spain
An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.
Windhoek, Namibia
A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.
Peniche, Portugal
A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.
Lisbon, Portugal
This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.
Porto, Portugal
A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.
Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.
Panguila, Angola
Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.
Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain
The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Uppsala, Sweden
Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.
Uppsala, Sweden
A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.
Uppsala, Sweden
Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.
Uppsala, Sweden
This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.
Uppsala, Sweden
The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.
Uppsala, Sweden
Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.
Hamburg, Germany
This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.
Stockholm, Sweden
Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.
El Jem, Tunisia
The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.
Rybachiy, Russia
The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.
Kaliningrad, Russia
A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.