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The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

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