Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Berlin's old airport.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.