This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

Stuck in the arcade of Casa Isolani are three arrows of mysterious origins.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

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

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.