A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

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

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

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

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."