Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

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

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.