"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

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

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.