Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Venice's island of the dead.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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