Mantua, Italy
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A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.
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Mantua, Italy
A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.
Bolzano, Italy
Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Rome, Italy
This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
Naples, Italy
Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Rome, Italy
In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.
Italy
According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Rome, Italy
This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Lexington, Kentucky
The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.
Perry, Georgia
Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Bellvue, Colorado
The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.
Phoenix, Arizona
Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Washington, D.C.
This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.