Places Edited by rbenn250

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A small village in two different countries.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.