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

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Prague's "Little Hanoi" is one of the commercial centers of Czechia's Vietnamese community.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A beautiful window with the old Tesla Radio company logo.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.