Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Venice's island of the dead.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

The deepest metro station in the world.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

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

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.