A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

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

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

The temple that withstood the Nazis.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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