Florence, Italy
Platform 16 Holocaust Deportation Memorials
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
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Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Venice, Italy
Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.
Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
Rome, Italy
The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.
Bologna, Italy
Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.
Bologna, Italy
A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.
Solferino, Italy
The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Gardone Riviera, Italy
A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.
Tremosine, Italy
This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
Bologna, Italy
Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Ever-growing collection of devils in art.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.
Kaunas, Lithuania
A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.
Naples, Italy
In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.