Hallstatt, Austria
Hallstatt Charnel House
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
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Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Queens, New York
The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.
Liverpool, England
Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.
Liverpool, England
The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
Liverpool, England
Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.
Liverpool, England
The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.
Manchester, England
A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.
London, England
A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.
Liverpool, England
19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.
Zhangye Shi, China
These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.
Newport Beach, California
Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.
Brooklyn, New York
“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."
Kilgetty, Wales
Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.
Pontypool, Wales
Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.
Port Talbot, Wales
The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.
Cardiff, Wales
Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.
Llandudno, Wales
The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”
Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Bodnant Hall, Wales
A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.
Holywell, Wales
The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.