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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

Horsemen once used this tilting post during jousting practice.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

A hunched figure depicted on the signs honors a local gentleman who died on an Antarctic expedition.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.