100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.