Formia, Italy
Parco Naturale Regionale di Gianola e Monte di Scauri
This little visited park is a treasure trove of ancient Roman ruins.
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Formia, Italy
This little visited park is a treasure trove of ancient Roman ruins.
Schilpario, Italy
A museum entirely dedicated to the evolution of mining lamps.
Pisa, Italy
The mysterious “claw marks” said to be left by the Devil on Pisa’s famous cathedral.
Termoli, Italy
This fishing contraption sits on top of a series of spindly wooden stilts.
Imola, Italy
The location where a famous medieval knight was murdered.
Albino, Italy
Musings of an artist carved into a rural stonewall.
Ercolano, Italy
Well-preserved, still-functional sliding wood doors from Ancient Rome can be found in this Vesuvius-stricken house.
Terni, Italy
Terni calls itself the "City of Lovers" and celebrates its links to Saint Valentine on February 14th—but is it the right Saint Valentine?
Naples, Italy
These bronze horses on the gates of the Royal Palace of Naples were a gift from a Russian tsar.
Budapest, Hungary
A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Athlone, Ireland
The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
Odda, Norway
Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."
Berlin, Germany
Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.
Stockholm, Sweden
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Ostiglia, Italy
One of the biggest islands in the River Po is a protected nature reserve, reachable only by a seasonal ford rich with endemic fauna, fossils, and late 19th-century buildings.
Civitavecchia, Italy
Why does this Italian coastal city have a statue of a 17th-century samurai?
Bergamo, Italy
Legend has it that the devil itself built this portal on a dare.
Lesina Marina, Italy
Remains of a cargo ship that wrecked in 1988.
Pignataro Maggiore, Italy
Once home to the episcopal curia of the local diocese.
Varallo, Italy
A 15th-century park that recreates a bit of the Holy Land in Italy.
Prato, Italy
A local legend says the theft of a holy relic explains the hand-shaped bloodstain on the facade of this cathedral.
Civitavecchia, Italy
This statue in Civitavecchia recreates a famous photograph from the end of World War II in massive scale.