This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A living lighting fixture.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.

Several 12th-century ruins can be found inside this historical market.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

These bronze horses on the gates of the Royal Palace of Naples were a gift from a Russian tsar.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.