Licenza, Italy
Abandoned Abbey of Santa Maria del Piano
The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.
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Licenza, Italy
The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.
Rome, Italy
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Halberstadt, Germany
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.
Cardross, Scotland
One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.
Modena, Italy
This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Santiago, Chile
Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.
London, England
The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.