These unique "earth pyramid" clay columns can be found in ravines around the village of Tirolo.

A blend of nature and art awaits visitors to this park.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

This high-speed test track is popular with car manufacturers, speed freaks and orbiting astronauts.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.