This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.