STUDY ABROAD 2K18

by aroberts24601

38 Places

Santa Maria della Concezione Crypts

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Dylan

Saint Victoria's Incorruptible Body

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

forestchild

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Keats-Shelley Memorial House

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Luca Mogini

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Papal Hearts at Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

CadaverFormosus

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The Head of St. John the Baptist at San Silvestro in Capite

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

CadaverFormosus

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Burcardo Theater Museum

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

Rebekah Otto

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The Mouth of Truth

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

EricGrundhauser

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Ospedale delle Bambole (Doll Hospital)

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

Cloaca Maxima

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Added by Kavya Ram Mohan

Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Josh

Museo Nazionale delle Paste Alimentari

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Added by lastpearl

Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

EricGrundhauser

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Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Michael Inscoe

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St. Catherine of Siena's Severed Head

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Dylan

Museo Anatomico at University of Siena

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Added by mbison

Partschins, Italy

Peter Mitterhofer Typewriter Museum

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

Added by trowel

Ötzi the Iceman

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

michelle

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Aarhus, Denmark

Your Rainbow Panorama

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Added by Karitxa

Aarhus, Denmark

Smiling Sun Mural

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

A secret club

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Risskov, Denmark

Aarhus Hjernesamlingen (Aarhus Brain Collection)

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

desiringmachine

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Højbjerg, Denmark

Grauballe Man

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

ronin

Copenhagen, Denmark

Tivoli Gardens

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Added by nitikp

Copenhagen, Denmark

Superkilen

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

EricGrundhauser

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Copenhagen, Denmark

The Little Mermaid

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Added by Alexander

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nasothek Nose Collection

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Josh

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Genetically Modified Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Antikythera Mechanism

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Trevor

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Samos Prefecture, Greece

Pythagoras Cave

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

anhie

Munich, Germany

Jeweled Skeleton of Saint Munditia

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Munich, Germany

Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Added by DoctorMoog42

Munich, Germany

Viscardigasse

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Added by jhavenhill

Munich, Germany

Der Teufelstritt (The Devil's Footprint)

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Annetta Black

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Munich, Germany

Schönheitengalerie (Gallery of Beauties)

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Annetta Black

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Munich, Germany

Wurmeck

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Added by albozes

Munich, Germany

Valentin Karlstadt Museum

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

Added by kbmaronski

Munich, Germany

Bruno the Bear

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

Vololona

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Munich, Germany

Deutsches Jagd und Fischereimuseum (German Museum of Hunting and Fishing)

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

dinoboy89

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Aarhus, Denmark

Bispetorvet Dinosaur Footprint

A public display of random paleontology.

A secret club

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