During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.