Venice, Italy
Poveglia Plague Island
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
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Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
York, England
An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.
Venice, Italy
Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
Because there's no place like home.
Los Angeles, California
The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"
Cutcloy, Scotland
The remnants of a classic 1970's British film.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Prague, Czechia
A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.
Prague, Czechia
This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.
Prague, Czechia
Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Glasgow, Scotland
A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”
Glasgow, Scotland
Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.
Arlee, Montana
This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.
Westcliffe, Colorado
Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Capel Saint Andrew, England
The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.