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Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Europe's simulation of the Martian surface uses soil from Mount Vesuvius.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

This brightly-colored chapel is a contemporary jewel standing in the middle of a La Morra vineyard.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

Statues portraying anatomical deformities were placed in this garden to foster ethical behavior.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.