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

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

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

The oldest preserved Triumphal Arch in Northern Italy

Murals created to save a fisherman's quarter from demolition!

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

A historic structure inspired by Roman, Muslim, and Jewish bath houses.

These fly sculptures are scattered around the city and represent the patron saint of Girona.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

This Moorish fortress has guarded Málaga from the slopes of Gibralfaro hill for nearly a thousand years.

The gardens and chambers of this Moorish citadel conjure memories of the Alhambra.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.