At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

A deep mark on the remains of a Roman temple, believed to be left by a legendary warrior.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

This room of wonder is full of relics, from knights in armor to rare works of art.

A literary park dedicated to the memory of a filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who was killed in 1975.

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.