Venice, Italy
San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
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Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Florence, Italy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Alianello, Italy
Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.
The Dalles, Oregon
This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.
Barre, Vermont
This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.
Seoul, South Korea
The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.
Fairmont, West Virginia
The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.
Seville, Spain
Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.
Terezín, Czechia
Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.
Atlanta, Georgia
The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.
Cleveland, Georgia
A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.
Preston, Connecticut
Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.
Glastonbury, Connecticut
Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.
Hartford, Connecticut
Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.
Windsor, Connecticut
More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.
New Canaan, Connecticut
Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.
Stratford, Connecticut
The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.