Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.