Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The bones of prehistoric animals and early signs of human habitation have been found inside Malta's "cave of darkness."

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The site of a prison camp where Cypriot resistance fighters were held in the 1950s.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.