The eccentric and colorful pavilions of Tower Grove park are a beloved and overlooked symbol. 

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The middle finger of modernity.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.