This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

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

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

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

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.