This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

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

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

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

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

An unusual structure of stone and glass honoring one of Japan’s most eminent Christian leaders who founded the non-church movement.