Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The world's oldest model village.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.