One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Venice's island of the dead.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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