An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

Dating back to the Pre-Roman Iron Age, this piece of bread is Europe's oldest surviving formed bakery product.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.

With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.

A monument to the grand synagogue that stood in this space before Nazis burned it down.

The former Field Marshall and Minister of War to the Russian Imperial Army.

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.