Rennes-le-Château, France
Rennes-Le-Château
French commune at the heart of conspiracies.
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Rennes-le-Château, France
French commune at the heart of conspiracies.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Monterosso al Mare, Italy
The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.
Nice, France
This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.
Nice, France
An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
San Marino, San Marino
High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Rome, Italy
This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.
Mow Cop, England
This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Jumièges, France
Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.
Trieste, Italy
During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Olvera, Spain
Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
Budapest, Hungary
The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.
Budapest, Hungary
This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.