An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

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

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Stone Age solar temple is aligned with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

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

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.