A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

Something's watching you.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

Romania's "Red Ravine" is a little-known natural wonder that bears a resemblance to the Grand Canyon.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

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

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

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

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.