After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

The tallest church in Mechelen might have been the tallest in the world if not for a lack of funds.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.

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

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

An ode to the washerwomen who called Pavia home.

These 500-year-old frescoes depict the city in its glory days.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.