You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

Whimsical wash tubs row down the stream as part of this Carnival celebration.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A unique showroom for bathroom fixtures featuring a giant toilet observation deck.

Inside this German disco, visitors can take a literal ride on the dance floor.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

From Carthage's Hannibal to riders of the Tour de France, many have crossed this scenic route through the Alps.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

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

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

An ancient theatre in the "little Rome of the Alps."

This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.

The 16th-century son of Sienese nobility carved this hermitage out of volcanic rock.

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

The leathery remains of a woman who died in the 13th century now lie in a church named for her.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

One of ancient Etruria's most spectacular archaeological sites with impressive necropolises and rugged landscape.