Rome, Italy
Zuccari Palace
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
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Rome, Italy
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Rome, Italy
The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.
Florence, Italy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Rome, Italy
Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."
Schwangau, Germany
A unique bridge with an equally unique view.
Munich, Germany
On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.
Bremen, Germany
One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.
Cologne, Germany
How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?
Berlin, Germany
Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.
Berlin, Germany
A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.