Holywood, Scotland
Garden of Cosmic Speculation
A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.
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Holywood, Scotland
A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
São Miguel, Portugal
This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.
Lisbon, Portugal
The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Bucharest, Romania
This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
Bucharest, Romania
Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.
Brașov, Romania
A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Bucharest, Romania
The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.
Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Sinaia, Romania
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
Ballyedmonduff, Ireland
This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.
Kilkenny, Ireland
These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.