The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

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

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

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

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

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

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

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.

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

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

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

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

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

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

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

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.