The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.