This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

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

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

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.