Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

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

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!