San Gimignano, Italy
The Museum of Medieval Torture
Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.
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San Gimignano, Italy
Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Florence, Italy
The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.
Florence, Italy
Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Great Malvern, England
The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The history and future of cannabis.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.
Berlin, Germany
A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Ostend, Belgium
The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.