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Miyazu-shi, Japan

Amanohashidate

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.
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Kyoto, Japan

Starbucks Ninenzaka Yasaka Chaya

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.
Anne Ewbank Added by Anne Ewbank
Ōmihachiman-shi, Japan

Okishima Island

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.
siewch Added by siewch
Beppu, Japan

Chinoike Jigoku

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.
serflac Added by serflac
Gardone Riviera, Italy

Vittoriale Degli Italiani (Victory Shrine of the Italians)

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.
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Serravalle, San Marino

San Marino Jinja

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.
Fred Cherrygarden Added by Fred Cherrygarden
Athens, Greece

The Athenian Agora

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Added by Sam Teicher
Andros, Greece

Tourlitis Lighthouse

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
EricGrundhauser Added by EricGrundhauser
Vernazza, Italy

Cinque Terre

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Molly McBride Jacobson Added by Molly McBride Jacobson
Province of Matera, Italy

The Village of Craco

An Italian hillside ghost town.
serflac Added by serflac
Pompeii, Italy

Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black
Baia, Italy

The Sunken City of Baia

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
SkareMedia Added by SkareMedia
Venice, Italy

The Mad Colored Houses of Burano

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Added by laurajok
Barcelona, Spain

Park Güell

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
leiris Added by leiris
Barcelona, Spain

Sagrada Família

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Leslie McIntyre Added by Leslie McIntyre
Oswiecim, Poland

Auschwitz Concentration Camp

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Added by Anglophilia
San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
AllisonEng Added by AllisonEng
Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Sign

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
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Iceland

Svartifoss

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Dampo Added by Dampo
Los Angeles, California

Urban Light

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
leiris Added by leiris
Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Torture Museum

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
michelle Added by michelle
London, England

God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
FrustratedFormerContributor Added by FrustratedFormerContributor
London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Vienna, Austria

Bestattungsmuseum (Vienna Undertakers' Museum)

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black