Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

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

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

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

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.