Rome, Italy
The Wax-Encased Remains of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
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Rome, Italy
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
Bari, Italy
A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.
Bologna, Italy
The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.
Clusone, Italy
A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.
Monreale, Italy
Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.
Minori, Italy
A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.
Zermatt, Switzerland
One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.
Modena, Italy
This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.
Volterra, Italy
Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.
Rome, Italy
One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.
Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Rome, Italy
A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Edertal, Germany
Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.
Göttingen, Germany
The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.
Leipzig, Germany
This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.
Bad Doberan, Germany
A steam powered train that runs on city streets.
Haigerloch, Germany
The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.
Schrobenhausen, Germany
Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.
Bremen, Germany
A spitting ode to a German serial killer.
Eichenau, Germany
This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.
Berlin, Germany
The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.
Dusseldorf, Germany
This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.