The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

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

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.