St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This abandoned bunker looks out over the Atlantic from its clifftop perch.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.