Dover Castle in Kent is known as the "key to England" for its defensive importance in the last 2 millennia...
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The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republic then crosses Germany into the North Sea...
On the causes of the disappearance of the crew and the abandonment of the Canadian brigantine Mary Celeste in 1872...
Chillingham Castle is a medieval castle in the village of the same name in Northumberland, England. From the fifteenth century...
Vlad III was the prince of Wallachia between 1448 and 1477, and is known by numerous names and appellatives, of...
Drink often present on the richest medieval tables, beer has been a true symbol of conviviality since ancient times. But,...
The images of Berlin, devastated by the Second World War, can induce what was the recurring question in the years...
A popular folk tale from the Gold Rush era has it that a Chinese laundryman got rich not from searching...
The world is filled with a cornucopia of stories, misteries and legends, and when we read or listen these, we...
In the middle ages, creating a book wasn’t easy, and could take years: a scribe would bend over his copy...
Kostel svatého Jiří (St. George’s Church) in Luková, Czech Republic, has been neglected for more than 40 years. Believing it...
Here we are: If they are speaking about Rocky Mountain oysters, Cowboy caviar, or Prairie oysters, they not speak about...
King Frederick William I of Prussia, also know as “The Soldier King”, was undoubtedly a leader, skilled to running his...
Glastonbury Tor is a conical hill located in the English town of the Somerset county of the same name. It...
In 1651, after the battle of Worcester, Charles II, who would go on become the king of England, climbed a...
Today it’s only a village hidden in the desert of Mauritania, which with its sands inexorably advances to the south,...
It is called Serpent d'Océan, but is not the skeleton of an animal that actually existed, in fact it’s a...
When at the port of Naples the british official Archibald Brown, looking at the roster in his hand, called out...
There are, of course, some legends linked to the Choustník castle, located in the South of Czech Republic. Perhaps the...
Zlenice castle was built after 1300 on a rock promontory above the confluence of the Mnichovický creek and the Sázava...
Ancient catacombs, with portals to the dead located in the church’s cellar, form the foundation for this church ghotic in...
The bitter-sweet relationship of Stalin’s Russia and Third Reich had shaped the European theatre of the Second World War, and...
The Livraria Lello of Porto, opened in 1906, is one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world, and hides...
In summer 1775, while General George Washington outfitted his first mobile headquarters for the Continental Army, he seems to have...
Not even 20 years ago, Ostrava, the third-largest Czech city, was known as the “Czech Republic’s Iron Heart,” especially for...
In the Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries there was some “Glass Men”, and the king Charles VI of...
Deep and lost in the woods of southern France, the artist Spencer Byles transformed the forest into a mysterious fairy-tale...
The Petřín Lookout Tower (Petřínská Rozhledna), where tourists can see one of the most beautiful view of Prague, was built...
Just outside the town of Gryfino and Nowe Czarnowo, in the West Pomeranian region of Poland, there is Krzywy Las,...
The Drawsko Cemetary, in Poland, recently discovered hundreds of graves among them, they found also some anti-vampire burials. This site...
