A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.