Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

This building once stood at the center of a butter war.

A reconstructed World War I-era communications array that was once hidden in plain sight.

The Netherlands is home to a bridge printed out of reinforced concrete.

In the middle of a forest you can find the first landing place of an air balloon in the Netherlands.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.