This statue of the great Argentinian car driver is located near a famous curve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

A memorial to honor those who were killed in a Bastille Day terror attack in Nice.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

Depending on how it is measured, this lighthouse can claim to be the tallest in Europe and the tallest conventional lighthouse in the world.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

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

Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

The oldest church in Mantua was buried for centuries under the facades of other structures.

An architectural oddity where the triglyphs of the courtyard of walls create an optical illusion.