The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

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