Venice, Italy
St. Mark's Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio)
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
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Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Lecarrow, Ireland
Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
Akureyri, Iceland
Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.
Grímsey, Iceland
The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.
Iceland
This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.
Iceland
A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.
Prairie Village, Kansas
A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.
Paris, France
135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.
Paris, France
Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
East Molesey, England
Floating pink tap installed for a flower show in London.
London, England
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
London, England
London's old-school healing garden.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
Ottawa, Ontario
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.