Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.