One of the earliest depictions of an Arthurian scene that is shrouded in mystery.

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

The San Marino-Rimini railroad was short-lived but this tunnel once provided shelter for hundreds of refugees during World War II.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

Browse through a century of this principality's first popular export.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

This building once stood at the center of a butter war.

Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.

A reconstructed World War I-era communications array that was once hidden in plain sight.

A tribute to smugglers and the Butter Wars.