There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.