Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Stone Age solar temple is aligned with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.