Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

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

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

An artificial date palm stands as a memorial to Warsaw's Jewish community.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.