Boston, Massachusetts
The Last Tenement
The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.
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Boston, Massachusetts
The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.
Perissa, Greece
This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.
Vlychada, Greece
A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Milan, Italy
This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.
Ticonderoga, New York
A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
Jerusalem, Israel
This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.
HĂłlmavĂk, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Smithfield, Virginia
The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.
Naples, Italy
This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.
San Severino, Italy
This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Naples, Italy
The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.
Naples, Italy
An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.
Naples, Italy
An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
Naples, Italy
The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Naples, Italy
Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.