The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.