Prague, Czechia
Museum of Communism
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
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Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Krakow, Poland
This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.
Berlin, Germany
This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Nuremberg, Germany
This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.
Nuremberg, Germany
A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The history and future of cannabis.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.
Worthing, England
It was once the longest continuously running cinema in the United Kingdom.
Worthing, England
An eccentric memorial garden to the "warrior" birds of World War I, the messenger pigeons used by the Allied forces.
Southampton, England
A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.
Southampton, England
Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.
Southampton, England
This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.
Portsmouth, England
This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.
Newport, England
The Last Home of an Executed King.