The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

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

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.