Genoa, Italy
Monteverde Angel
The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.
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Genoa, Italy
The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.
Rome, Italy
A rare example of a medieval house in Rome adorned with a melancholic inscription.
Turin, Italy
This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
Rome, Italy
This small church was constructed over the ruins of three temples dating to the Roman Republic.
Genoa, Italy
Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.
Rome, Italy
This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.
Pisa, Italy
Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.
Assisi, Italy
What appears to be an ancient Roman temple is actually a Catholic church.
Rovereto, Italy
This war memorial holds the remains of around 20,000 World War I soldiers from both sides of the conflict.
Rome, Italy
This medieval church in Rome was almost destroyed following a terrorist attack in 1993.
Pisa, Italy
Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.
Comacchio, Italy
This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.
Louth, Ireland
A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.
Galway, Ireland
Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.
Dublin, Ireland
The oldest public library in Ireland.
Fingal, Ireland
Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.
Mayo, Ireland
This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.
Grangewilliam, Ireland
Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.
Kilkenny, Ireland
A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.
Clare, Ireland
A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.
Wicklow, Ireland
This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.
Dublin, Ireland
A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.
Ireland
Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.
Kerry, Ireland
Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.