In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

In a resort town where the real Alice spent her summer holidays, iconic characters create a curious trail.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.