Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

What appears to be an ancient Roman temple is actually a Catholic church.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.