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

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

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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