How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

Unusual carved mural of “barefoot diva” Cesária Évora, icon of Cape Verdean morna music.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A masterpiece of modern architecture that caused quite a stir in Paris, recreated in Bologna half a century later.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

This historic cemetery is home to the largest private mausoleum in Europe.