The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

Its look is severe, but its location, isolated on a hill in the middle of the countryside, is particularly scenic.

In this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery, monks painstakingly restore old books.

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.

This site marks the oldest known settlement in Campania, inhabited around 9,000 years ago.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

This medieval mountain town is also known as the "Village of Streams."

These ancient pecked images are among the oldest and best-preserved in Mongolia.

Only three columns survive from this ancient temple in the town of Cori.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

One of the four sanctuaries of Rieti's Holy Valley was the site of the first living nativity scene.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

The ruins of this Roman temple dominate the small city in southern Lazio.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

This seventh-century fortification marked the western border of the Lombard duchy of Spoleto.

An exploration of a small ethnic group’s heritage through their exquisite folk art.

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

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.