London, England
Urine Deflectors of Fleet Street
One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.
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London, England
One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.
Buffalo, New York
A library room filled with Twain’s relics, and a recovered literary treasure.
Zurich, Switzerland
Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.
Vienna, Austria
The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.
Oxford, England
The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.
Vienna, Austria
The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.
Vienna, Austria
Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.
Vienna, Austria
The first modernist church in Europe.
Vienna, Austria
An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.
Vienna, Austria
Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.
Vienna, Austria
A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.
Vienna, Austria
A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Monroe, Wisconsin
Do you think your job stinks? Welcome to the only Limburger cheese plant in America.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.