This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

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

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.