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

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A cableway for car transport.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.