Vatican City
Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte Geografiche
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Places I've been
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Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Bristol, England
Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.
Oxford, England
One of Europe's oldest libraries.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Exeter, England
At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.
Exeter, England
Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.
Bath, England
Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.
Bath, England
This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Hatsukaichi, Japan
This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.