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Roman-style pizza al taglio arrives here with magnificent, crackly crust.

Everything from fried brains to stewed lungs are on the menu at this nose-to-tail spot.

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

For more than a century, this hole-in-the-wall near Termini Station has been serving what some say is the greatest porchetta sandwich.

A literary park dedicated to the memory of a filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who was killed in 1975.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

These spindly, stone-capped formations are the product of glacial deposits and thousands of years of erosion.

The graffiti that birthed modern algebra.

The top of the holy mountain for the ancient Spartans looks like a pyramid—is it man-made or a natural phenomenon?

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.