Barcelona, Spain
Calder Mercury Fountain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
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Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Barcelona, Spain
This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The deepest metro station in the world.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.
Lviv, Ukraine
Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Skulte, Latvia
A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Riga, Latvia
A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.
Tallinn, Estonia
This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Tallinn, Estonia
Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.
Krakow, Poland
At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.
Krakow, Poland
A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Krakow, Poland
Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
Krakow, Poland
The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Gdańsk, Poland
This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.
Gdańsk, Poland
These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.