Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

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...

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

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

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