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katieprescott79

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Bucharest, Romania

Memorial of Rebirth

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

ovidiuneacsu

Added by ovidiuneacsu

Bucharest, Romania

Curtea Veche (Old Princely Court)

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

Talbot von Sregor

Added by Talbot von Sregor

Bucharest, Romania

Trajan and Wolf Statue

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

martinhenshaw123

Added by martinhenshaw123

Bucharest, Romania

Arcul de Triumf

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Lilina

Added by Lilina

Bucharest, Romania

Palace of the Parliament

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

ovidiuneacsu

Added by ovidiuneacsu

Bucharest, Romania

Romanian Kitsch Museum

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Bucharest, Romania

Cărturești Carusel Bookstore

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

ovidiuneacsu

Added by ovidiuneacsu

St. Mary's Basilica

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

gjexcalibur

Added by gjexcalibur

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

Wieliczka, Poland

Wieliczka Salt Mine

An underground city of salt.

michelle

Added by michelle

Syntagma Square Metro Station

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Tower of the Winds

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

gus619USA

Added by gus619USA

Lycabettus Funicular

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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Added by gus619USA

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

New Delhi, India

Iron Pillar of Delhi

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

Dylan

Walmsley, Australia

Albany Chainsaw Sculptures

Inside this sculpture park are dozens of woodcrafts crafted by the gentle hands of a chainsaw.

samsfrank89

Added by samsfrank89

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Explosion Memorial

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Vorontsov Palace

This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.

SamM

Simferopol, Crimea

Crimean Trolleybus Line

The longest trolleybus route in the world, from Simferopol and Yalta.

SamM

Arsenalna Metro Station

The deepest metro station in the world.

SamM

Golden Gate of Kyiv

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Added by Kavya Ram Mohan

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Dampo

Odesa Catacombs

The largest catacomb system in the world.

Dylan

The Swallow's Nest

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Added by NathanRisinger