Venice, Italy
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
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Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
Tremosine, Italy
This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.
Gardone Riviera, Italy
A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.
Cislano, Italy
A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.
Brescia, Italy
Legend says the only thing buried within this magnificent tomb was a dog.
Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Padua, Italy
Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."
Italy
This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Mantua, Italy
A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Corrubbio, Italy
Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.
Verona, Italy
A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.
Antwerp, Belgium
Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.
Kemzeke, Belgium
A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.
Stekene, Belgium
Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.
Nieuwkuijk, Netherlands
This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.
Burgh-Haamstede, Netherlands
Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.