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Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

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

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.