This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

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

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

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

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.