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

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

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

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.