Florence, Italy
La Specola Anatomical Collection
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
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Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Reggello, Italy
On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.
Barcelona, Spain
Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.
Barcelona, Spain
This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.
Barcelona, Spain
A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.
Barcelona, Spain
Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.
Sant Just Desvern, Spain
An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.
Òrrius, Spain
A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Hamburg, Germany
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Hamburg, Germany
This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Krakow, Poland
Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Krakow, Poland
This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.