This whimsical fountain depicts a winged siren shooting water out of her nipples into the fires of Mount Vesuvius.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

Erected in memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born close to this spot, this statue commemorates the author and his famous detective.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

A nearly lost tribute to an 11-year-old boy killed during a World War I homecoming parade.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Its collection highlights the monumental tasks undertaken to map Queensland.

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

A small collection of objects of a bygone era hide in plain view.

A sculpture that commemorates an iconic photo of urban Scotland's past.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.