Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

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

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.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This military tunnel dates back to World War II and provides visitors with a little wartime adrenaline.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.