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

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.