The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.