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Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

A pre-Columbian ceremonial and astronomical site built by the Taino Indians.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.