This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Legends surround this natural rock formation that looks like a Moorish king wearing a crown.

This ancient fort has been a great insight into the Roman presence in the region.

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Housed in a historic 1840 home, this museum provides a window into the lives of everyday, 18th- and 19th-century Bulgarians.

This fifth-century church is one of the oldest Christian sites in the Balkans.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

In a city of wooden houses, this watchtower was vital for early fire detection.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

A quaint medieval harbour where Benjamin Franklin landed in 1776.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

A unique military outpost carved into a rocky outcrop in the English Channel.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Venice's island of the dead.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.