This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

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

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.