San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
Ossario di San Martino
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
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San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Capriate San Gervasio, Italy
A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."
Colombo, Sri Lanka
This mesmerizing architectural wonder will take your breath away with its unusual color patterns.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
Lee, Massachusetts
Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."
Port Huron, Michigan
A place for ship-lovers to watch the passage of freighters traversing the Great Lakes while learning about their history.
Birgu, Malta
The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.
Tartu, Estonia
The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.
Türisalu, Estonia
Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.
Narva, Estonia
An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.
Goleta, California
This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.
Mechernich, Germany
This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.
Madrid, Spain
Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.
Dublin, Ireland
More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.
Almeida, Portugal
The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.
Woomera, Australia
Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.
Rye, England
Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.
Pinhal Novo, Portugal
This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Seville, Spain
A 16th-century Andalusian palace.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.