Vienna, Austria
Naturhistorisches Museum
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
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Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Kaunas, Lithuania
A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.
Neringos savivaldybė, Lithuania
A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.
Ketrzyn, Poland
This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.
Nibe, Denmark
In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.
Aarhus, Denmark
This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.
Stoholm, Denmark
Nearly 40 miles and 1,000 years of limestone mines under Denmark.
Strand, Norway
This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.
Stavanger, Norway
Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Stonehaven, Scotland
The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.
Kaycee, Wyoming
The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.
Urubamba, Peru
These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
West Sumatra, Indonesia
This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.
Zhangjiajie, China
A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.
Chile
A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.
Varstu Parish, Estonia
A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.