Hitachinaka, Japan
Kochia Hill
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
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Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Glasgow, Scotland
The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.
Brussels, Belgium
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
Halle, Belgium
Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Savannah, Georgia
This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Vienna, Austria
An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.
Vienna, Austria
One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
Artesina, Italy
Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Cortenova, Italy
The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.
Lanzo D'intelvi, Italy
The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.
Pavia, Italy
This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Vigevano, Italy
The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.
Limbiate, Italy
A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.
Milan, Italy
Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.