The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

There are no crying babies in this neck of the woods.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.