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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

A stunning medieval castle houses this eclectic, interactive tribute to all things wine.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.