This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

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

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

In the Netherlands, one of the world's largest private car collections can be found.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.