Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The middle finger of modernity.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.