A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.