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Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Sagrat Cor, the church at the very top of Tibidabo. (Wikimedia Commons)

Barcelona, Spain

Tibidabo

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Houses inside Park Güell designed by Gaudí

Barcelona, Spain

Park Güell

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Barcelona Erotic Museum

Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona Erotic Museum

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Chocolate chariot driver and his horses (Flickr/SpirosK)

Barcelona, Spain

Chocolate Museum

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

The facade of the church, still under construction.

Barcelona, Spain

Sagrada Família

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

La Specola Zoological Museum

Florence, Italy

La Specola Zoological Museum

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Antonio Scarpa's Head

Pavia, Italy

Antonio Scarpa's Head

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

John Hawkwood by Paolo Uccello

Florence, Italy

Fresco of John Hawkwood

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

In the upper station

Naples, Italy

Funicolare Centrale

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Recovered Nemi Ship.

Nemi, Italy

Nemi Ships

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

Looking out onto la Civita, the city center, from an ancient grotto in Sassi di Matera.

Matera, Italy

Sassi di Matera

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The Anatomical Theatre of Archiginnasio

Bologna, Italy

Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio

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

Waves lap the shore of Capo Testa (Flickr/Frengo2.0)

Capo Testa, Italy

Capo Testa Rock Formations

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

The Incorruptible St. Zita

Lucca, Italy

The Incorruptible St. Zita

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

(Flickr/Elizabeth Thomsen)

Alberobello, Italy

Alberobello

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

The view from the bottom of the well.

Orvieto, Italy

Pozzo di San Patrizio

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Dante's Tomb, Ravenna

Ravenna, Italy

Dante's Tomb

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Il Porcelino

Florence, Italy

Il Porcellino

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Santa Maria dell'Isola seen from Via Indipendenza - Tropea, Italy.

Tropea, Italy

Santa Maria dell’Isola Monastery

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

The path on which lovers meet

Riomaggiore, Italy

Via dell’Amore

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Campo de Fiori

Rome, Italy

Campo de Fiori

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The Museums of the University of Pavia

Pavia, Italy

The Museums of the University of Pavia

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Stibbert Museum

Florence, Italy

Stibbert Museum

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

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