Florence, Italy
Gipsoteca Bartolini
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
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Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Lucca, Italy
This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.
Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
Lucca, Italy
Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.
Beamish, England
Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.
Gateshead, England
The largest timber structure in Europe.
Sunderland, England
This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.
Spanish Battery, England
A collection of maritime artifacts from the world's first volunteer life brigade.