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La Rambla cuts through Barcelona’s old town, separating the neighborhood El Raval from the historic Gothic Quarter. It’s a place of contrasts, bustling with beauty and history, but also with pickpockets and tourist traps. Generally, I tell visitors to stay clear of La Rambla as...

Sometimes referred to as the Hungarian national spirit, the Zwack family’s signature liquor, Unicum is over two centuries old and the history of this wince-inducing tipple is on display alongside Central Europe’s largest collection of mini alcohol bottles right in the...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 (Photo source) Do you ever travel without your camera or cell phone?  Me neither.  Since you always have a photo snapping device handy, use it to save yourself from headaches if the airlines lose your luggage: Thanks to Brett for sharing...

Batsto Village is a tiny village that was built to accommodate a once prosperous iron works, but after falling into decline and being abandoned it now remains as a nearly perfectly preserved historic landmark.  Batsto was founded in 1766 as an iron-making industrial center....

Looking like something straight out of a horror movie, Italy’s Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra is the crumbling husk of a mental institution that was closed due to cruel treatment of its patients. One of whom left a mysterious code etched into the plaster. ...

For most of its known existence the New Athos Cave was simply called the "Bottomless Pit" but it has now been revealed to in fact have limits to its depths, but they are so vast that a metro train was built to traverse them .  The giant cave system, located inside...