Castricum, Netherlands
De Kwal (The Jellyfish)
This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.
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Castricum, Netherlands
This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.
Stockholm, Sweden
Twice a year, this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm’s archipelago.
Hals, Denmark
A small Denmark town displays a pair of titanic jaw bones as their community symbol.
Darmstadt, Germany
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Wonsees, Germany
These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.
Binz, Germany
A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Cologne, Germany
A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Cologne, Germany
This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Capannori, Italy
This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.
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.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, France
The largest underground church in Europe.
Bern, Switzerland
The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.
Crécy-la-Chapelle, France
This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Turnov, Czechia
Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Parikkala, Finland
Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.