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Bowiefrid

I live in a forest with a witch and a vodu doctor, I'm just the weird guy that collects books. If it weren't for one of my jobs, I probably would have never visited 94% of the places I have seen.

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Places visited in Kazanlak, Bulgaria

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Places visited in Osimo, Italy

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Florence, Italy

The Bull of Santa Maria del Fiore

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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Florence, Italy

Vasari Corridor

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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Florence, Italy

Fresco of John Hawkwood

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Annetta Black

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Florence, Italy

Studiolo Francesco I de’ Medici

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Annalisa

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Langhirano, Italy

Museum of Prosciutto di Parma

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Rachel

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Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Dylan

Medieval Village

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Annalisa

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San Fruttuoso, Italy

Cristo degli Abissi (Christ of the Abyss)

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

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Ettore Guatelli Museum

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Solferino, Italy

The Ossuary at San Pietro

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

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Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Added by ranchen

Albergo Diurno Venezia

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

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San Bernardino alle Ossa

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Milan's Duomo "Dinosaur"

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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Santa Maria presso San Satiro

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

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The Devil's Column

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

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Leonardo's Horse - Il Cavallo dello Sforza

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Annetta Black

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Anatomical Theatre at the University of Pavia

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

Dylan

Antonio Scarpa's Head

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

EricGrundhauser

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The Museums of the University of Pavia

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Dylan

Vigevano, Italy

Cathedral of St. Ambrose

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

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Ostermundigen, Switzerland

Psychiatrie-Museum Bern

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

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Bern, Switzerland

The Child Eater of Bern

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.