Inside this church are the alleged remains of the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

These ancient artifacts are a testament to the enduring significance of the bull in Spanish culture.

A reproduction of the famous prehistoric cave paintings is hidden underground at the National Archaeological Museum.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.