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

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

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

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

After the queen of Spain had a dream where these statues fell and crushed her, they were removed from the palace and given new homes around Madrid.

This sweet-toothed bear searching for snacks has been a symbol of Madrid for decades.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

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

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

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

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.