Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

Three underground crypts and a pointed arch under the bell tower make this cathedral unique among Romanesque churches.

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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

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

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

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

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

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

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.