In order of most striking/greatest impact to less striking
1) Auschwitz/Birkenau - the scale alone is terrifying. Took me about a week to recover from the evil of those places
2) St. Peter's and St. Paul's tombs
3) Raphael's frescoes before entering the Sistine Chapel, and then of course the Sistine Chapel itself
4) Dublin's Chester Beatty Library (contains countless ancient manuscripts from different cultures)
5) Tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli are all in a single church in Florence (Santa Croce).
6) The Shroud of Turin
7) The Mosaics of Ravenna
8) Mt. Vesuvius/Pompeii
9) The Alamo
10) The Tower of London
11) Michelangelo's Moses
12) The Island of Elba (the island of Napoleon's exile)
13) Octoberfest
14) Chateau d'If in Marseilles (the prison from The Count of Monte Cristo)
1) Auschwitz/Birkenau - the scale alone is terrifying. Took me about a week to recover from the evil of those places
2) St. Peter's and St. Paul's tombs
3) Raphael's frescoes before entering the Sistine Chapel, and then of course the Sistine Chapel itself
4) Dublin's Chester Beatty Library (contains countless ancient manuscripts from different cultures)
5) Tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli are all in a single church in Florence (Santa Croce).
6) The Shroud of Turin
7) The Mosaics of Ravenna
8) Mt. Vesuvius/Pompeii
9) The Alamo
10) The Tower of London
11) Michelangelo's Moses
12) The Island of Elba (the island of Napoleon's exile)
13) Octoberfest
14) Chateau d'If in Marseilles (the prison from The Count of Monte Cristo)
