This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

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

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

The remains of 50,000 World War I soldiers rest under a towering arch overlooking the Alpine battlefields.

The 1940s structure houses what was once Europe's largest telescope.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.