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This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.