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

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

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

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.