Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.