This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

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

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.