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This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.

Kitschy nautical-themed bar has offered mermaid shows and underwater ballet since 1956.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

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

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

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

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.