Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

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

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

The middle finger of modernity.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.