Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

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

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.