An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

These pools have been abandoned for over 20 years.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

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