Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

Underground monastery and fortress.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.