This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.