Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

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

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The ruins of this once gorgeous medieval church are still standing, despite the region's constant flooding.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Ever loyal to Roma, the small village of Albe in the Abruzzo region carried on until an earthquake did it in.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

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

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.