A colorful sculpture of an Australian symbol patrols an otherwise ordinary traffic island.

The unique work of art celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 1988 World Expo.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

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

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.