A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

On top of a hill, this Catholic church overlooks the most Catholic island in Greece.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

A hilltop monastery on the Greek island of Hydra.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.