A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

This enormous sinkhole hides a secret world created from divine wrath.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

Also known as the Temple of Poseidon, this is one of the best-preserved Greek temples in the world.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

The only Malaysian food truck in Italy slings tangy chicken satay that even Italians love.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.