A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

Stone age urban planning.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

These wooden balconies that are both decorative and functional.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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