Palermo, Italy
Palazzo Chiaramonte
Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Palermo, Italy
Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.
Palermo, Italy
Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.
Leavenworth, Washington
The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.
San Antonio, Texas
The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.
Billund, Denmark
An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
London, England
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Shipka, Bulgaria
The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.
Mulgrave-et-Derry, Québec
What was once the largest mine in North America has left behind a hollow hill filled with bright blue waters.
Nushabad, Iran
A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.
Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, Italy
The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Pietranera, Italy
The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.
Salzburg, Austria
The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.
Innsbruck, Austria
Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.
Wellesley Island, New York
This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.
St. Louis, Missouri
The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.
Amherstburg, Ontario
An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Québec
The falls were named for the mistaken idea that they were the ones pictured on the Canadian $5 bill.
Lazarim, Portugal
One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.