An ancient site that has revealed incredible artifacts including portions of the Themistoclean Wall.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

An expansive collection donated by an heirless nobleman formed this admission-free civic museum.

This museum focuses on the history and culture of the German settlers in Pennsylvania.

These bronze horses on the gates of the Royal Palace of Naples were a gift from a Russian tsar.

Locals pay their respects at a shrine to soccer player Diego Maradona—which claims to contain a real lock of his hair.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

This fortress was built using the last surviving stones from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Well-preserved, still-functional sliding wood doors from Ancient Rome can be found in this Vesuvius-stricken house.

A lone nuraghe and a little old church with mysterious origins.

This fine arts hall honors the mastermind behind our beloved creepy and kooky Addams Family.

A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.

Thousands of rock-cut tombs fill the cliffs of this Sicilian nature preserve.

Tear apart fatty, gently charred lamb chops with your bare hands.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

A rebuilt Roman city that was once the largest Roman settlement in the region.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.