Padua, Italy
St. Anthony's Tongue
The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.
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Padua, Italy
The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.
Cassino, Italy
This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.
Pompeii, Italy
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Rome, Italy
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Rome, Italy
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Seattle, Washington
Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Seattle, Washington
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Barcelona, Spain
A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.
Barcelona, Spain
The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
San Francisco, California
The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.
Vancouver, British Columbia
What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.