Ravenna, Italy
Guidarello Guidarelli Funeral Monument
Legend has it that any woman who kissed this statue would soon be married.
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Ravenna, Italy
Legend has it that any woman who kissed this statue would soon be married.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Florence, Italy
An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.
Florence, Italy
A haunting medieval cloister that once served as the friars’ burial ground.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Florence, Italy
The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.
Bologna, Italy
A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.
Bologna, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.
Sjöbo, Sweden
Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.
Steyl, Netherlands
This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.
Oberhausen, Germany
An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Cologne, Germany
The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.
Neuss, Germany
Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.
Dusseldorf, Germany
This concrete church spent a period of its history as a World War II bunker.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.