Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.