This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

Three underground crypts and a pointed arch under the bell tower make this cathedral unique among Romanesque churches.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

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

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

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

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.