Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

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

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.