A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.