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An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

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

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This museum in the tower of the oldest church in Gdańsk, is home to centuries-old time-keeping devices and the world's first pulsar clock.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

The site of the first battle of World War II.