Berlin, Germany
Pergamon Museum
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
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Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Huế, Vietnam
Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.
Mongolia
The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.
Leshan, China
This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.
Delft, Netherlands
The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.
Fez, Morocco
Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.
Gothenburg, Sweden
The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Wicklow, Ireland
This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.
Selçuk, Turkey
This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.
Kuşadası, Turkey
A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.
Oranienburg, Germany
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Cambridge, England
This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.
Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Andermatt, Switzerland
A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Gdańsk, Poland
A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.
Otterlo, Netherlands
Located inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, this museum began as the private collection of a prominent female art collector.
Arnhem, Netherlands
This large open-air museum showcases the ordinary lives of the people of the Netherlands and pre-industrial crafts and practices.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
An icon of International Style architecture on the outskirts of Rotterdam.