Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg Thingstatte
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
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Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Heidelberg, Germany
A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.
Heidelberg, Germany
A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.
Frankfurt, Germany
Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.
Frankfurt, Germany
Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.
London, England
On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.
Bristol, England
A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.
Dublin, Ireland
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
Dublin, Ireland
Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."
Budapest, Hungary
A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Reading, England
This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.
Marlborough, England
Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.
Galway, Ireland
The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Hastings, England
Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.