This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.