Ivrea, Italy
Battle of the Oranges
A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.
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Ivrea, Italy
A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.
Pramarzo, Italy
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
Turin, Italy
Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.
Turin, Italy
A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
Turin, Italy
The only Malaysian food truck in Italy slings tangy chicken satay that even Italians love.
Turin, Italy
This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.
Turin, Italy
Europe's simulation of the Martian surface uses soil from Mount Vesuvius.
Triora, Italy
The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."
Réotier, France
This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.
Risoul, France
Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.
Ypres, Belgium
The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.
Ypres, Belgium
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Ypres, Belgium
In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.
Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Helfaut, France
This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.
Bastogne, Belgium
Dedicated to the American general whose reply to a German demand for surrender was simply "Nuts!"
Rummu, Estonia
The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.
County Donegal, Ireland
This World War II relic let Allied pilots know they were entering neutral airspace.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
This memorial site offers scenic views and a peaceful place for reflection.
Naples, Italy
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
Key Largo, Florida
After a long career, a disastrous sinking, and a half-successful salvage, this Naval vessel-turned-artificial reef ended up exactly where she was supposed to—with a little help from nature.
Olenivka, Ukraine
Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.
Italy
The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.