Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Venice's island of the dead.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.