Ypres, Belgium
Sanctuary Wood Museum
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
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Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Brussels, Belgium
Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.
Bruges, Belgium
This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.
Halle, Belgium
Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.
Zurich, Switzerland
Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.
Habsburg, Switzerland
An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Sciacca, Italy
A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.
Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Andria, Italy
Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.
Marostica, Italy
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
Rome, Italy
A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.
Rome, Italy
Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.
San Gimignano, Italy
These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Foligno, Italy
The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
San Gimignano, Italy
Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Capalbio, Italy
Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.
Collodi, Italy
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
Rome, Italy
This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.