It would take a miracle to save what should have been the little Lourdes of the Lombard Prealps. In Merate,...
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We are in the Rusovce borough, part of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Surrounded by crumbling walls and Rusovsky Park, a...
The county of Norfolk, England, is home of the world’s greatest concentration of medieval churches, with over 650 scattered in...
We are in the Gunibsky district of Dagestan, Russia, where lies Mount Gamsutlmeer. At an altitude of roughly 1,400 meters...
The so-called Squire’s Castle sits upon a slight hilltop right off of Chagrin River Road just north of Route 6...
In the early 1940s, tensions were high in Finland, as locals suspected that the Soviet Union, not satisfied with the...
We are deep in the Morne Seychellois National Park where, perched on a mountaintop, lies the ruins of a mission...
We are on the Isle of May, an island about five miles from the north shore of the Firth of...
The ruins of the old village San Severino di Centola, known known until 1861 as San Severino di Camerota, are...
We are in the village of Hellingly, in East Sussex, England. Here, on 20 July 1903, the Hellingly Mental Hospital...
We are on St Dunstan's Hill, halfway between London Bridge and the Tower of London in the City of London.The...
Chichen Itza, a pre-Colombian archaeological site built by the Mayans in northern Yucatan, Mexico, is home to many architectural and...
Between the steep gorges of the Andes and the immense rainforests of the Amazonas region in Peru, there are surprising...
We are in Glasgow, Scotland. The city is not exactly short of interesting monuments and buildings, and one of the...
From Mina Harker’s diary, Chapter 6, Dracula by Bram Stoker: “Right over the town is the ruin od Whitby Abbey,...
Since the days of the Roman empire, alum was used as a mordant or fixative that allowed textiles to be...
The top of Glengesh Pass in County Donegal, Ireland, is breathtaking. Here you’re in one of the most remote corners...
Some forty miles from New York, there is a place called Rosemary Farm (or Roland Conklin Estate), a Long Island...
As you probably know cats in Rome are very popular and they have always found shelter amongst the ancient city...
This eerie castle rots within the small village of Łapalice, Poland. It was abandoned before it was even completed, essentially...
We are in the town of Beočin, on the slopes of Fruška Gora mountain, where rests a peculiar building, in...
Located on Pointe Saint-Mathieu in Plougonvelin, around Brest in Finistère, Saint-Mathieu lighthouse was built in 1835 among the ruins of...
Hidden among the trees in northern Michigan and along the shores of Lake Huron in the Cheboygan State Park lies...
We are in Thoptewadi, India. Here stands a fort that for centuries was called Kondhana, named after the monk Kaundinya....
Probably the name "Creteblock" seems rather strange for a vessel, but it’s extremely accurate for one that was essentially just...
We are in southern coast of Namibia, 25 km south of Lüderitz. Even though it often seems to be forgotten...
We are in Romania. Hidden in the dense forests of the Carpathians, Sarmizegetusa Regia is one of the oldest, most...
We are in Ibiza. The island wasn't always the party hotspot it is today. It wasn’t until the late 1960s...
Maglič is a 13th century medieval castle about 15 km southwest of the town of Kraljevo, in central Serbia, located...
Roche, in cornish dialect "Tregarrek", which mean homestead of the rock, is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, United...
