Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
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Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Zugarramurdi, Spain
This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Staten Island, New York
A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.
Brooklyn, New York
Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
Madrid, Spain
Infamous and now demolished panopticon prison built by its former inhabitants.
Belchite, Spain
A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
San Martín de la Virgen del Moncayo, Spain
The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Dresden, Germany
When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.
Berlin, Germany
An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.