The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This region of the Perugia municipality has an unforgettable name.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.