This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.