Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

One of the windiest peaks in Crimea is home to an incredible set of cable bridges.

This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

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

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

Legend has it that not even Stalin could pull down the 2015 European Tree of the Year.

Historic slum of Tartu.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

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

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.