Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

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

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

The history and future of cannabis.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

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

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.