These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Overlooked archeological site close to the city of Patras.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.

The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.