A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.