Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.