This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

An underground city of salt.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

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

The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.