Palermo, Italy
Capuchin Monastery Catacombs
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
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Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Vienna, Austria
This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.
Vienna, Austria
A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.
Vienna, Austria
The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.
Vienna, Austria
A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
Op-art architecture designed for happiness.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Sri Lanka
The ruins of this old church are slowing sinking into the sand.
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
These abandoned ruins in the middle of Jaffna have withstood centuries of tumultuous power struggles.
Palermo, Italy
Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.
Santo Stefano Quisquina, Italy
Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.
Monreale, Italy
Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.
Messina, Italy
An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.
Oppède, France
These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.
Rustrel, France
One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.
Dénezé-sous-Doué, France
Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.
Asque, France
A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."