This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.