Paris, France
Foucault’s Pendulum
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
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Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Imatra, Finland
These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.
Salla, Finland
Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Kemi, Finland
This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.
Saariselkä, Finland
Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.
Ruokolahti, Finland
Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.
Enontekiö, Finland
This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.
Kalsoy, Faroe Islands
This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.
Faroe Islands
The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.
Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands
This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .
Tallinn, Estonia
This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Piusa, Estonia
Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.
Tallinn, Estonia
Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.
Kaali, Estonia
Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.
Thisted, Denmark
A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.
Jelling, Denmark
Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.
Herning, Denmark
This huge industrial sculpture looks like a UFO and a factory had a baby.