Venice, Italy
Poveglia Plague Island
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
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Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Matavun, Slovenia
This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."
Marostica, Italy
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Schnals, Italy
Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Želízy, Czechia
Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.