Despite the name, this unusual palace in rural Tunisia never belonged to an Italian dictator.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

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

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

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

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

Feast on the freshest of fish by the Bosphorus.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

This family-owned canteen has been selling goat milk ice cream since 1933.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.