London, England
London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
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London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Bern, Switzerland
Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.
Beatenberg, Switzerland
Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Styx, Australia
Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Tanami East, Australia
The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.
Forsand, Norway
This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Panjin Shi, China
A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.