The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The middle finger of modernity.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.