This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

This brightly-colored chapel is a contemporary jewel standing in the middle of a La Morra vineyard.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

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

Hundreds of plague victims were buried beneath this small, rural church.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

Angels and demons watch over newspapers in this deconsecrated church.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

A genius of the art of juggling is buried here.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

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

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.