The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.