An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

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

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

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

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

This camera store in Milan holds one of Europe’s largest collections of luxury-antique cameras.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

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

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

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

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.