Rome, Italy
Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
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Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Berlin, Germany
From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.
Berlin, Germany
A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.
Three Forks, Montana
A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
Prague, Czechia
An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.
Panguipulli, Chile
This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.
Bergen, Norway
The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.
Meškuičių seniūnija, Lithuania
An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Cahuita, Costa Rica
Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.
Zugarramurdi, Spain
A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Tallinn, Estonia
"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Reykjavik, Iceland
The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Iceland
Rising from the sea like a stone monster.
Rome, Italy
Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.