Europe

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• Travel

Mon Chat Pitre: the bookshop in Provence where you can read books in the company of cats rescued from shelters

4 years ago Adam

2 min read

• Breaking News

“Le Courage”: the Russian restaurant that looks like an abandoned mansion

4 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

Zmei Gorynich: the life-size fire-breathing, three-headed dragon statue in Russia

4 years ago Adam

2 min read

• Travel

British Airways i360: the World’s thinnest observation tower

4 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Food

Lapis Legit: the Dutch-Indonesian cake that contains up to 30 layers.

4 years ago Robin

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• Abandoned Places

“Bovisa’s drop”: history (and future?) of Milan’s secret wood

4 years ago Anya

2 min read

• Food

Salzburger Nockerl: a dessert that pays tribute to the snow-covered mountains surrounding Salzburg.

4 years ago Danilo

2 min read

• Food

Pão de Ló de Ovar: a cake so gooey that requires a spoon.

4 years ago Ivan

2 min read

• Food

Xuixo: the original Cronut named after a legendary acrobat’s sneeze.

4 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Spudnut: America’s Forgotten Halloween Treat

4 years ago Leo S

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• People, mysteries and stories

The curious story of Witch’s Ladder

4 years ago Anya

7 min read

• History

The “Witch Cake” – a 1600s forgotten recipe you probably won’t try

5 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The mystery of the mummified bishop and the stillborn fetus in his coffin

5 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Poor Clares Convent Cemetery of Ischia, Italy, and its macabre story

5 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• History

The world’s oldest grape vine that has been around for nearly 500 years

5 years ago Danijel90

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Fastnet Lighthouse: the story behind “Ireland’s Teardrop”

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Food

The “Ridiculous Butter” flavored with lobster and crab that costs $130

5 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Food

Mozartkugel: a Salzburg Original!

5 years ago Danilo

5 min read

• History

The insane, inconclusive truth behind Rat Kings, the grotesque tangled Super-Rodents

5 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Shabla Lighthouse: the oldest lighthouse on the balkan peninsular

5 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Travel

The Old Fairy Bridge of the Isle of Man (and how to find it)

5 years ago Leo S

5 min read

• Myths and Legends

White deer in myths and legends

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Wicklow Head Lighthouse – Ireland

5 years ago Nathan

4 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Buried under a boulder: the grave of Meg Shelton, the Woodplumpton Witch

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Food

Túró Rudi: Hungary’s favorite chocolate bar

5 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• History

The Protest Pig: a rare breed designed to be a living (and breathing) flag

5 years ago Pavel

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Valentia Lighthouse at Cromwell Point

5 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Food

Lángos, the beloved Hungarian Street Food

5 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Travel

Nikiszowiec: Katowice’s old mining district

5 years ago Anya

6 min read

• Myths and Legends

The owl of Cwm Cowlyd and the oldest animals in the world

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

“The Lost XVII”: a missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route

5 years ago Nathan

5 min read

• Myths and Legends

The Sluagh: Celtic spirits of the unforgiven dead

5 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

Panta Petrović: the Serbian cave hermit that gets Covid vaccine and urged others to follow

5 years ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Loop Head Lighthouse | Ireland

5 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Muschats’s Cairn: a stack of stones that honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

5 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Motors

Sloot Motor: the motorcycle that tuns on swamp gas

5 years ago Robin

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The grave of ‘The Great Lafayette’ and his beloved dog in Edinburgh’s Piershill Cemetery

5 years ago Ivan

1 min read

• Food

Here is the story behind the Leidse Koffie!

5 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

St John’s Point – the tallest onshore lighthouse on the Irish coast

5 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Food

Wildschönauer Krautinger: Austria’s Turnip Schnapps

5 years ago Danilo

3 min read

• History

Döllersheim: the austrian village that Hitler destroyed to crush a rumor

5 years ago Pavel

2 min read

• Travel

Neptuni Åkrar: a Swedish fossil-rich cobble beach that holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

5 years ago Ivan