Athens, Greece
Antikythera Mechanism
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
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Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Rome, Italy
The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Rome, Italy
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Madrid, Spain
An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.
Fez, Morocco
Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.
Budapest, Hungary
A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.