Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

Stuck in the arcade of Casa Isolani are three arrows of mysterious origins.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.