San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
Ossario di San Martino
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
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San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Sirmione, Italy
One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.
Sirmione, Italy
On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.
London, England
The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.
London, England
After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.
Swindon, England
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
Verona, Italy
A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.
Verona, Italy
These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Moreton-in-Marsh, England
The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.
Cheltenham, England
Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.
Stockholm, Sweden
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Cherhill, England
The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.
Warminster, England
The longest hedge maze in the world.
Uley, England
You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.
Gloucestershire, England
A well-studied colony of endangered bats roosts in this abandoned Victorian Gothic mansion.
Hampton Fields, England
Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.