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This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

The site of the notorious Great Train Robbery of £2.6 million, one of the biggest heists in English history.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.