Los Angeles, California
Muscle Beach
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
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Los Angeles, California
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
Odessa, Ukraine
The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.
Victoria, British Columbia
The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Wrocław, Poland
The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Brno, Czechia
This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Belgrade, Serbia
Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Kyiv, Ukraine
When you've got to go, you've got to go.
Zagreb, Croatia
This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.
Budapest, Hungary
A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.
Drumheller, Alberta
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Budapest, Hungary
The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.
Belgrade, Serbia
Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.
Belgrade, Serbia
A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.