Padua, Italy
Padua Astronomical Clock
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
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Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Naxos, Greece
This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.
Lasithi, Greece
This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.
Athens, Greece
The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Nafplio, Greece
This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Heraklion, Greece
A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.
Argolis, Greece
This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Bruges, Belgium
This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
Bruges, Belgium
The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.
Ypres, Belgium
The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Brussels, Belgium
Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.
Brussels, Belgium
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.