A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Berlin's old airport.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.