An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

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