Reggello, Italy
Sammezzano Castle
On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.
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Reggello, Italy
On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Colobraro, Italy
Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.
Tunis, Tunisia
A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Alianello, Italy
Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.
Milan, Italy
Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.
Apple Valley, California
Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course
Bavay, France
These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
New York, New York
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
Chouigui, Tunisia
This 19th-century church was built for Sicilian immigrants, survived World War II, and today stands on a landfill.
Wayne, Alberta
To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.
Alet-les-Bains, France
This mysterious church sits discreetly above the Aude countryside, right in the heart of "Grail Country."
Valencia de Alcántara, Spain
One of Europe's largest groups of dolmens remains largely off the typical tourist track.
Valencia, Spain
This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.