Ercolano, Italy
Herculaneum
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
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Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Ercolano, Italy
The oldest volcanology research center in the world.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Florence, Italy
A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
San Antonio, Texas
A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Kristiansand, Norway
The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Whittier, Alaska
This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
Anchorage, Alaska
This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.
Venice, Italy
Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.
Venice, Italy
The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.
Florence, Italy
In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.
Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Florence, Italy
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.