The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

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

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.