Alianello, Italy
Alianello Ghost Town
Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.
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Alianello, Italy
Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.
Maddaloni, Italy
A massive bridge forms part of an aqueduct that was deemed an architectural wonder of its time.
Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
For centuries, this large Roman villa remained hidden thanks to the eruption that buried nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Rome, Italy
This small church was constructed over the ruins of three temples dating to the Roman Republic.
Verona, Italy
These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.
Romeno, Italy
A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.
Conca dei Marini, Italy
A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
London, England
This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Tokyo, Japan
A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
London, England
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Yoro, Japan
Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.
Hamragarðar, Iceland
This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
Iceland
Rising from the sea like a stone monster.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
Rome, Italy
A small cell adjacent to this church was once the bedroom for a renowned saint.
Milan, Italy
Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.