Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.