Brussels, Belgium
Temple of Human Passions
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.
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Brussels, Belgium
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Brussels, Belgium
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.
Meyrin, Switzerland
The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Stockholm, Sweden
A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.
Istanbul, Turkey
A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Krakow, Poland
In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.
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
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Vilhelmina, Sweden
Locals perched on icy thrones brave frigid temperatures during this bizarre winter tradition.
Indonesia
Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.
Abang, Indonesia
Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.
Kediri, Indonesia
Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.
Ubud, Indonesia
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.
Hull, England
This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.
Manchester, England
The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.