This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.