Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Old Sarajevo Clock Tower
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Tomba, Montenegro
One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.
Geneva, Switzerland
A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.
Geneva, Switzerland
This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.
Geneva, Switzerland
One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.
Castello-di-Rostino, France
A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.
Køge, Denmark
This marker commemorates a long-lasting historical haunting and demonic possession that led to one of Denmark's worst witch trials.
Lead, South Dakota
Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.
Kerċem, Malta
This 19th-century aqueduct provides insights into how water was supplied to Victoria on the island of Gozo before modern plumbing.
Shiraoi, Japan
Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.
Sesimbra, Portugal
Ghostly ship drawings grace the walls of this medieval hospital.
Naha, Japan
All that remains of Okinawa's royal temple are a restored gateway and a tall banyan tree.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
High rises built to house displaced military personnel and their families form a unique cylindrical shape.
Civitavecchia, Italy
Why does this Italian coastal city have a statue of a 17th-century samurai?
Pune, India
This local institution has been serving Parsi staples since 1935.
Meridian, Mississippi
The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.
St. Petersburg, Florida
History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.
Longwood, Saint Helena
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Sossusvlei, Namibia
This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.
Namibia
A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.
Namibia
Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.
Penny, British Columbia
Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.