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Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Dive for drinks at Croatia's first and only underwater winery.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.