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

The middle finger of modernity.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.