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

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

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

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

Remote town home to Himachalis, Israelis, and tons of hashish.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.