Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

The second-highest village in Lazio has attracted artists for 400 years and is now a spectacular open-air art gallery.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

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

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

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

A French museum of wrought iron.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

For centuries, this large Roman villa remained hidden thanks to the eruption that buried nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.