Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

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

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

The middle finger of modernity.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.