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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.