A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

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

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Art and a pun, all in one.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.