A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.