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Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The middle finger of modernity.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

This caldera was once associated with the Etruscan god of the underworld.

This Roman theater was crafted into the local tuff rock and was rediscovered during the 19th-century.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This massive rock balanced for thousands of years being tossed here during a volcanic eruption.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

This medieval Italian village was transformed into an architectural marvel by the famous "Papessa" Donna Olimpia.

The leathery remains of a woman who died in the 13th century now lie in a church named for her.