Montegabbione (TR), Italy
La Scarzuola
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
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Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.
Paris, France
The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Paris, France
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Peaugres, France
One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Châteaudun, France
The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Dan, Israel
Idol made by King Jeroboam for the Israelites.
Beiteddine, Lebanon
After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.
Bayatbademleri Köyü, Turkey
Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.