Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

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

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.