An unconventional and naturalistic sculpture depicting the artist marking his territory on an exterior faculty wall.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.