A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.