This brightly-colored chapel is a contemporary jewel standing in the middle of a La Morra vineyard.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

This beautifully preserved Ottoman house is steeped in history.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

A massive cave once a secret military base is now home to thousands of bats.