Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

This commanding mausoleum holds the remains of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.

A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

An unusual monument to a 19th-century circus star.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."