Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Venice's island of the dead.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.