A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

The oldest church in Inverness witnessed the brutal executions of many Scottish soldiers.

A historic fire call point.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

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

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.