One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

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

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.