The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.