A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Dynastic Home of the De Piro Family.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.