Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

This unique rock formation is quite the local celebrity, although one day it may come crashing down.

This local emblem is the oldest and largest dragon tree in the Canary Islands.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.