Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

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

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

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

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

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

Its frescoes depict the likeness of Marshal Tito, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels burning in hell.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.