This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

The great Danube river starts here.