Padua, Italy
Palazzo del Bo Anatomical Theater
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
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Padua, Italy
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
Crespano del Grappa, Italy
This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.
Dusseldorf, Germany
An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A palatial art deco restroom.
Cedar Lake, Michigan
There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.
New York, New York
The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.
Kawakawa, New Zealand
Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
Shibam, Yemen
A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."
Òrrius, Spain
A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.
Sant Quirze Safaja, Spain
An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.
Montcada i Reixac, Spain
Remote ruins of a 2,400-year-old Iberian settlement.
Llinars del Vallès, Spain
An ancient tower built during Roman times as a lookout post still stands to this day.
Ávila, Spain
These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.
Durham, North Carolina
This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.
Rayne, Louisiana
The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.
Lake Placid, Florida
Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.
Nottingham, England
An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.