This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

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.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.