Lucca, Italy
The Incorruptible St. Zita
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
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Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
Lucca, Italy
This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.
Naoshima, Japan
A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Paris, France
This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Chicago, Illinois
Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Vouliagmeni, Greece
These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.
Spetses, Greece
Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.
Argolis, Greece
This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.
Sultaniye Köyü, Turkey
The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.
Selçuk, Turkey
The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.
Selçuk, Turkey
This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
Rome, Italy
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Cefalù, Italy
A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.