In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.