Ercolano, Italy
Herculaneum
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
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Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Rome, Italy
This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Rome, Italy
The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Atlanta, Georgia
Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.
Pomeroy, Ohio
This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.
Covington, Kentucky
Northern Kentucky’s very own Notre Dame showcases intricate stained glass and the bones of saints.
Covington, Kentucky
A shop for all your magical needs and notions.
Kathmandu, Nepal
This is one of the last surviving structures of a once vast palace complex.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.
Abang, Indonesia
Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.