The local club's soccer field is practically surrounded by UNESCO-protected monuments.

One of the very few mosques built by the Ottomans still standing in Croatia is now a Catholic church.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

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

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

Hiding in plane sight.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.