The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

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

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.