Venice, Italy
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
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Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Venice, Italy
Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.
San Gimignano, Italy
These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Berlin, Germany
An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.
Berlin, Germany
The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Paris, France
Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Boston, Massachusetts
This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.