Thorpeness, England
House in the Clouds
Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.
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Thorpeness, England
Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.
Dover, England
One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.
Dover, England
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
Metz, France
A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.
Amiens, France
A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Amiens, France
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Reims, France
Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.
Lahnstein, Germany
Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.
Koblenz, Germany
This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.
Stoumont, Belgium
An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.
Lessines, Belgium
One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Genappe, Belgium
A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Halle, Belgium
Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Chaudfontaine, Belgium
Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.
Brussels, Belgium
A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.
Brussels, Belgium
When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.
Brussels, Belgium
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.