Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The King is honored by an elaborate grotto on a continent he never visited.

This 20-story artwork on a public housing block is the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere and tells the story of a community.

This giant, granite purse is one of Melbourne's most unique and distinctive pieces of public art.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Not the result of an accident, hurricane, or aliens, this is an eye-popping tribute to the Melbourne tram.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.