Amboise, France
Leonardo da Vinci's Tomb
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
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Amboise, France
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
Sydney, Australia
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Adelaide, Australia
The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.
Seychelles
A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland
The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
Munlochy, Scotland
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Edinburgh, Scotland
One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.
Edinburgh, Scotland
360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.
Ironbridge, England
This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.
Brighton, England
Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.
Brighton, England
Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Brighton, England
Regency-era excess on the English Coast.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Heidelberg, Germany
A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.
Lyon, France
Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.
Lyon, France
Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.