Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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