A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.