Cluj-Napoca, Romania
St. Michael’s Church
This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.
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Cluj-Napoca, Romania
This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
Oxford, England
The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.
Sigtuna, Sweden
Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.
Avesta, Sweden
The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.
Wasserauen, Switzerland
This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.
Pidhirtsi, Ukraine
One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.
Haspra, Ukraine
A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.
Urubamba, Peru
Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Zagreb, Croatia
An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.
Stow-on-the-Wold, England
This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
Ávila, Spain
These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.
Lampedusa e Linosa, Italy
A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.
Bač, Serbia
A well preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina.
Chad
Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.
Milanovac, Serbia
Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.
Irkutsk, Russia
Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.
Gao, Mali
The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.
Oristano, Italy
This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Mongolia
The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.