Frâncești, Romania
One Wood Monastery
A Romanian church built from one single oak.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Frâncești, Romania
A Romanian church built from one single oak.
Taoyuan, Taiwan
A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.
Nahr El Kalb, Lebanon
In a narrow river valley just north of Beirut, Lebanon, is a chronicle of human history unlike anything else in the world.
Pune, India
A riverside stone memorial dedicated to an unidentified hero.
Krakow, Poland
Beautiful portraits of the artist's children and his amazing stained glass windows in the Art Nouveau style.
Fremont, Ohio
After a battle with Congress, Webb C. Hayes installed the gates of the White House on the fence of his father's Presidential Library and Museum.
London, England
A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
London, England
Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.
London, England
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
London, England
This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.
Windsor, England
The patch of land below the memorial was gifted by the British to the United States.
London, England
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
London, England
The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.
London, England
This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
London, England
At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.
Southend-on-Sea, England
A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.
Krakow, Poland
An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
Krakow, Poland
There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.
Błędów, Poland
People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.