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

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Daikon radishes are offered to the Japanese Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Ganesha at this historic hilltop temple.

This small park holds what remains of a former prison and execution ground.

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

A small museum of antique transport that's a must-see for bicycle lovers.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.