In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

An 18th-century post box used to alert the church of sick and ailing foreign pilgrims.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

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

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.