Venice, Italy
The Mad Colored Houses of Burano
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
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Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Prague, Czechia
A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Budapest, Hungary
A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.
Budapest, Hungary
From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.
Budapest, Hungary
A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Budapest, Hungary
The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.
Brooklyn, New York
Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.
Olomouc, Czechia
An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Prague, Czechia
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
Prague, Czechia
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
A crucified and bearded female saint.
Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.