Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

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

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

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

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.