There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

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

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

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

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.