The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

The history and future of cannabis.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.