The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

A medieval stronghold rising over the ruins of ancient Roman villas along Rome's southern coast.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

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

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

This scenic fortress dates back at least 2,400 years to the time of Magna Graecia.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

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

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.