Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

Once upon a time in Kamakura, a five-headed dragon fell in love with an Indian water goddess.

This memorial park is also the original site of Queen Cleopatra’s Caesareum, whose pillars now stand in London and New York.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

A mural recalls a fictional woman who once lived at 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels.

This small village claims to be independent from Italy because it was left out when the nation was unified.

These statues are dedicated to the damned souls of those executed centuries ago on the beautiful Yuigahama beach.

A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

A gigantic mechanical bull rages over unsuspecting passengers at Birmingham’s central station.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

An obsolete, long-forgotten advertising character lingers on this Sainsbury’s balcony railings.

Perhaps the most obscure, simplistic Banksy installation found in Bristol or in the entire world.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

One of Hollywood's most iconic actresses was born in an upscale Brussels neighborhood in 1929.

Belgrade’s oldest restaurant has a rather unusual name.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

Once believed to be a sacred Roman legionary symbol, this bronze figure inspired the 1954 novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth.'

A bronze ship jutting out of a bridge, a commemoration of Osamu Dazai, a sculpture created by 30 manga legends, and more.

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

Just off the city’s central station hides a quaint lamp-lit alley into medieval Elsinore.

Forget the hearse ‘cause he’s forever immortalized in a Belgian city where AC/DC performed a secret gig that pushed them forward.

A mountaintop shrine-temple guarded by a horde of half-demon priests.

An undeciphered text is inscribed on a mysterious stone slab.