High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

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

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

A 3rd-century Roman villa in Kourion with one of the only mosaics in Cyprus to depict gladiators fighting by name.

Built in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, this cathedral is one of the finest examples of Sicilian Baroque architecture.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

There are over 12,000 Buddha statues at this temple complex that has been mistakenly labeled a monastery.

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.