Genoa, Italy
Monteverde Angel
The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.
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Genoa, Italy
The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.
Naples, Italy
This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.
Rome, Italy
A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.
Stromboli, Italy
A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.
Capri, Italy
The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.
Milan, Italy
The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.
Florence, Italy
More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.
Pozzuoli, Italy
A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
Roccascalegna, Italy
This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.
Pisa, Italy
Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.
Milan, Italy
Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.
Calcata Vecchia, Italy
Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.
Rome, Italy
One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.
Rome, Italy
One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Geneva, Switzerland
This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Meyrin, Switzerland
The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.
Plougrescant, France
A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.
Salamanca, Spain
An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.
Adalar, Turkey
One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.
Istanbul, Turkey
A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.
Istanbul, Turkey
A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.