A scientific observatory managed the largest Portuguese astronomy research unit.

This institution has been serving up some of the best pancakes in the Netherlands for over a century.

It's forbidden to dig within this ancient Roman fort hidden beneath a playground.

This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.