Milan, Italy
Lucrezia Borgia’s Love Letters
"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.
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Milan, Italy
"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.
Milan, Italy
Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.
Milan, Italy
Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Milan, Italy
Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.
Milan, Italy
The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Milan, Italy
This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Palermo, Italy
This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.
Straid, Northern Ireland
The first organic farm shop in Northern Ireland.
Penrose, Colorado
The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.
Scotchtown, Nova Scotia
A miner’s death at the hands of strikebreaking company police sparks a labor movement that continues to the present day.
Holbrook, Arizona
Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.
Tanzania
Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.
Rio Grande, Brazil
The longest sea beach in the world can be found on the southern coast of Brazil.
South Sudan
The inhabitants of the world’s largest wetland have learned to navigate its dramatic seasonal changes.
Zephyrhills, Florida
This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.
St. Augustine, Florida
This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.
Pensacola, Florida
Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.