Suffolk, England
Principality of Sealand
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
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Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Dover, England
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Allerton Mauleverer, England
This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Odessa, Ukraine
A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Habsburg, Switzerland
An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.
Bodio, Switzerland
The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Neuheim, Switzerland
These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Hammarland, Finland
A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.
Östersund V, Sweden
Winter roadtrips are a little more exciting on this seasonal, slippery expansion of Sweden's national highway system.