Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

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

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

This one-of-a-kind archeological site is home to strange prehistoric ruins, the original use of which is still a mystery.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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

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

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