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Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Venice's island of the dead.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

Stone carvings record the Norse myth of Sigurd, providing a glimpse into Scandinavia's transition from paganism to Christianity.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.