Lucca, Italy
Torre Guinigi (Guinigi Tower)
Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.
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Lucca, Italy
Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.
Ephrata, Pennsylvania
What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.
Eupen, Belgium
Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.
San Diego, California
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Rome, Italy
A Nesting Doll of Churches.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.