Ein Gedi, Israel
Dead Sea Sinkholes
As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.
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Ein Gedi, Israel
As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.
Masada, Israel
This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.
Jerusalem, Israel
The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Nuremberg, Germany
This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Munich, Germany
Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.
Ottensheim, Austria
A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.
London, England
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
Birmingham, England
This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Chester, England
The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.
Liverpool, England
19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.
Liverpool, England
The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.