This small Milan street is filled with colorful homes and a rich history.

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

This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

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.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.