Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

An excavation site that signified Hercules in Pula, and a glimpse into the city's Roman history.

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

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

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

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

A Roman mosaic depicting a classical myth was only rediscovered after bombing during World War II.

A former church turned museum, complete with changing exhibitions.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.