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Nestled in the woods lies this land art project: a hybrid between park, maze and natural monument.

This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

The world’s largest street art museum.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

A student driver's nightmare.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Remains of a cargo ship that wrecked in 1988.

One of the biggest islands in the River Po is a protected nature reserve, reachable only by a seasonal ford rich with endemic fauna, fossils, and late 19th-century buildings.

This castle was once an Italian horror cinema star.

The other, lesser-known, Sistine Chapel, sits over 500km away from the Vatican City in an Italian port City.

Featuring one of the oldest collections of historic musical literature in the world.

For many years, the river that Julius Caesar led his army across into Italy was lost until re-identified.

A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.

Just one of the Italian corridors vying for the title of the country's narrowest.

Two bronze wolves atop this large rock honor the "Wolves of Tuscany" brigade of World War I.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

For one of Rome’s finest renditions of cacio e pepe, head straight to this osteria.

The final resting place of the famous violinist, after his corpse was denied a proper Catholic burial for decades.

This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled the island of Pantelleria.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

For centuries, this town's hot springs have been embraced by rich and poor—and even by Popes.