Museums and monuments present out past - the good and bad side of our sites, but usually they are vital parts of our cities and towns.
Alberobello - secret of trulls. Alberobello’s story is a legend of the most astonishing case of tax fraud. The town was built in such a way that it could be dem more...
Houses of Weavers in Chemsko Slaskie. It is a small city on the Bober near the border with the Czech Republic. It used to be weaving center, as in the seventeen more...
Konin post - the oldest road sign in Central and Eastern Europe in Konin. It is located on the left bank of the Warta, the old town of Konin, next to the Gothic more...
On the eastern Polish border with Belarus extends the oldest Polish forest. Created here in Poland, the oldest national park and nature reserve protection of zu more...
Stein am Rhein is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. In or around 1007 Emperor Henry II moved St George’s Abbey from its former locati more...
Tianluokeng tulou cluster are invincible Hakka’s home. Hakka were a kind of Chinese Gypsies. In addition to the delicious cuisine (umami taste), this population more...
The Kremlin Arsenal is located in a building built in 1851 by architect Constantine Thon. They are stored there for centuries in tsarist treasury precious items more...
The Sherlock Holmes Museum 221b Baker Street in London - the heroes of novels and short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle lived under a non-existent in reality the more...
The village Biesiekierz located not far from Koszalin, since the sixteenth century was part of the assets of Holken family, whose head office was located in a n more...
Ponte Vecchio (the Old Bridge), bridge called also The City of Goldsmiths - is the famous bridge over the River Arno, known as the oldest stone bridge in Europe more...
Dresden Pfund family shop from 1880 – it is the most beautiful dairy shop in the world, certified by Guinness Book. It is the work of renowned company Vileroy & more...
Koniakow is a little town known for its manual lace-making. It all began in the late nineteenth century. Among the townspeople reigned fashion to adorn clothing more...
Private Museum of the Automobile and Technology in Otrebusy was established in 1995, but the exhibits were collected many years earlier, and their renovation an more...
Stutthof Concentration Camp was established at the outbreak of World War II, 2 September 1939. Here, from the first days of the war they were deposited Poles an more...
Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Andersen’s fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, hav more...
Fragonard perfume museum where you can explore historic factory, a museum of perfumes and cosmetics in the store to buy a company. Since the eighteenth century, more...
Museum of Bread in Radzionkow is an institution, which brings together exhibits on the history of bread. The museum was opened on April 26th 2000. There are col more...
Greater Fire Service Museum - it is a museum presenting archival materials, accessories and equipment related to the topic fire fighting. The museum was opened more...
Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, officially established May 21, 1085 year (then in Denmark). The location at the narrowest point of the Sound more...
Coral Castle - the sculpture garden in stone was built by one man, Edward Leedskalnin. In years 1923-1951, he single-handedly and secretly carved over 1,100 ton more...
Museum of Milling and Water Equipment of Rural Industry Museum was located in 1981 on the river Welna, on a former mill settlement. Exposures were deployed in t more...
KattenKabinet was created by William Meijer to commemorate his favorite cat Tom, also called John Pierpont Morgan (known American banker). Tom lived from 1966 t more...
Governors Island National Monument is located in Manhattan, New York City on 22 acres (89,000 m2) of Governors Island. Governors Island has played a role in the more...
Rose Museum in Kazanlak lies at the eastern end of the famous Rose Valley. Bulgaria is the major supplier of a certain type of rose oil in the world and Kazanla more...
Open-air museum in Swarzedz presents a collection on beekeeping and silk industry. In the museum you can take a look at the history of beekeeping, bees bred rac more...
Riese is the code name for the construction project of Nazi Germany in 1943–45. In the north - western part of the Owl Mountains (Eulengebirge) and in the vicin more...
Arkady Fiedler Museum is the museum dedicated to the life and work of Arkady Fiedler traveler, located in Puszczykowo near Poznan. Arkady Fiedler (November 28, more...
Lancut Castle is one of the most beautiful aristocratic residences in Poland. It is famous for its excellent interiors and extraordinarily interesting collectio more...
Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in the world - it has more than 2500 years, which is the same age as cities such as Rome or Athens. In ancient times it wa more...
Portuguese Photography Center was founded in 1997 by Ministerio da Cultura. Centre has its headquarters in a former prison, which has been renovated and adapted more...
Dulag 121 Pruszkow - German Nazi transit camp, where civilians gathered in Warsaw and surrounding villages, removed from their homes during and after the Warsaw more...
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has thousands of objects on display, including the 1903 Wright Flyer, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Loui more...
Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz received on her wedding day (1922) Anna’s estate from his father, Stanislaw William Lilpop, which they called Stawisko, where, in more...
This museum is small and hidden.What museum is all about it’s skies and Lahti winter games. The first part of the museum covers the history of skiing in Finland more...
Hershey’s Chocolate World - the sweetest place on earth - Hershey, Pennsylvania. The story of Hershey’s spans nearly a century and a half of industrial and soci more...
Pennsylvania Amish Country is a picturesque landscape, rolling hills with lush grasses and crops, farms with windmills dotting the horizon and horse and buggies more...
Castle of the Teutonic Order in Ostroda is one of the oldest and most interesting Gothic monuments located in Ostroda. The first prosecution stronghold situated more...
Money Museum of the Bank of Lithuania is a museum which worth a visit, it have a lot of exhibits, lots of interesting things. Convenient location, sightseeing f more...
Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan is one of the richest private art collections in the world, especially from the collections of famous Italian and Flemish paintings more...
Miniworld Rotterdam is an unusual exhibit with the small, kooky scenes that you must look closely (accidents, cow on surfboard, Teletubbies, etc.). In Miniworld more...
Gettysburg early in the second half of the nineteenth century was a small American town. At the height of the Civil War, this place became, however, the scene o more...
Lelow is a very old little town, his beginnings dated is from 1193. It was an important center of Hasidism, the Jewish community had two burial places. The olde more...
In Roskilde, about 60 km from Copenhagen’s it is Viking Ship Museum with the great reconstructed Viking boats. They measure 31 meters long and can accommodate u more...
The Imperial Butterfly House is housed within a stunning palm house, built during the Art Nouveu period at the beginning of the last century. It is part of the more...
Museum of Rural Musical Instruments housed in a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Szydlowiec, located on an island surrounded by a moat, in a romantic park setting. more...
Duna Promenade in Budapest (hun.Duna – korzó) piece of waterfront along the Danube and Pest stretching between the bridge of Elizabeth and the Chain Bridge. The more...
American Visionary Art Museum is an art museum located in Baltimore. The museum specializes in the preservation and display of outsider art (also known as "intu more...
Ciechanowiec is one of the oldest towns in Podlasie, received the Magdeburg city rights around 1413, and the oldest preserved city documents come from the sixte more...
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest, largest, most important railroads in the history of the mid-Atlantic region. During its peak years, the r more...
Oscar Kolberg - ethnographer, folklorist, composer, he was the creator of the source foundations of modern sciences of culture: ethnography, ethnology, folklore more...
Bierkeller "U Fleku" is the oldest and most famous brewery restaurant in the world. Its foundation dates back to 1499 years, when Vit Skremenec, brewer, began t more...
Philadelphia is a symbolic city, as it was here that signed the United States Declaration of Independence, the Constitution was adopted and created the Union. F more...
Pere-Lachaise is the most beautiful and largest cemetery in Paris and one of the largest cemetery in the world. The name of the cemetery comes from the name Jes more...
The National Katyn Memorial in Baltimore memorializes the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish nationals carried out by Soviet forces. It was erected on more...
Klodzko Fortress - Stronghold is the most valuable piece of modern defense architecture in Poland, which has its origins in the tenth century, in the place wher more...
The origins of the castle are associated with the rise in the twelfth century castellany Lublin when it was erected on a hill fortified castle wood-natural emba more...
Sveti Stefan is a small islet and hotel resort in Montenegro, circa 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of Budva. Once an island, connected to the mainland by a cau more...
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s. Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American au more...
Kluki is a village 32 km (20 mil) north-east of Slupsk. Kluki was settled by the Slovincians in the sixteenth century and features an open-air museum, Muzeum Ws more...
Piotrkowska Street is a representative street of Lodz, has a length about 4.2 km and is the longest street in Europe. It was established with the first settleme more...
National Museum of Dentistry is located in Baltimore. It exhibits the history of dentistry in United States and throughout the world. The museum’s extensive 40, more...
Clock Museum in Jedrzejow was a result of handing over the collection of sundials, astronomical instruments and antique books library by the family Przypkowski. more...
National Museum of the American Indian – belonging to the Smithsonian Institution museum dedicated to the history, the life, languages, literature and art Ameri more...
Radziwill Palace with its garden in Nieborów is a baroque palace, which was built in the eighteenth century and survived to our times in its original shape. The more...
The archaeological site of Knossos is sited 5 km southeast of the city of Iraklion.There is evidence that this location was inhabited during the neolithic times more...
Museum is dedicated to Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when the inhabitants of Warsaw tried to overcome German occupants. more...
Museum located in the center of Warsaw, near the Vistula River, presenting history of Polish army from the Middle Ages until today. In the outside part of the m more...
USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier built in World War 2, fought in the Pacific surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike later to serve during Cold more...
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