The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.