Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

An unexpected homage to 90s celebrities hidden in a corner of Ibiza.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

Tombs containing the remains of some of the first and most important professors of medieval Bologna

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Stuck in the arcade of Casa Isolani are three arrows of mysterious origins.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

Turtles swim in a pond surrounding a classical temple in this lush park in Vicenza.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.