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The costumes depict the Kurent, the star character of the annual Kurentovanje festival.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

Inside the Finchingfield Guildhall, two sticks that belonged to alleged witches in the 17th century.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.