Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.