First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

A landmark in the history of technology and computing is hidden in a tiny Baroque chapel.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.