The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

Stuck in the arcade of Casa Isolani are three arrows of mysterious origins.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

In 1988, jazz legend Chet Baker fell to his death from a window of this hotel facing Amsterdam Centraal.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

These stairs feature the names of Zemun's most famous faces.

Different sections of the Zemun Fortress were built in the 14th and 15th century as a response to the advance of the Ottoman Empire.

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

This statue of a 15th-century Hungarian military and political figure has become known for its resemblance to a particular cartoon knight.

An Art Deco Icarus statue adorns this abandoned gem of Yugoslav Modernist architecture.

One of Serbia's oldest luxury hotels and a nostalgic echo to Yugoslavia in the state's former capital.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.