Europe is home to some of the world's greatest art, but it's not just in museums and palaces.

You'll find artistic flourishes almost everywhere you look.

Europeans just love to embellish everyday views from their piazzas to their back lanes.

It gives European cityscapes a real Joa de Vieve.

That's what's so great about Europe is that in many ways Europe itself is a big museum.

Hi I'm Rick Steeves.

Coming up, my travel buddy and art historian Jean Openshaw joins us as together we look at some of the ways

Europeans dress up the settings of everyday life.

And Robert Edselis just published a follow-up book with more stories about the heroes

who rescued Europe's greatest start during and after World War II. He'll tell us about the

monuments men and how their work continues to this day.

So this greatest treasure hunt in history continues to find these missing hundreds of thousands of works of art and documents worth literally billions of dollars.

Come along as we take a little time out to appreciate the artistic touches that adds so much delight to our world.

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

We're looking at art outside the museums of Europe today on Travel with Rick

Steve's. Tell us what kind of art has impressed you on the streets of

Europe. We're at 877333 Rick, or by email it's radio at Rick Steves.com.

And later in the hour, Robert Edsel brings us more stories of the heroic work of the

Monument's men, people who saved Europe's art treasures from the Nazis.

In the late 19th century in France,

the cry of the artist was out of the studio and into the light.

Well, today, we're going out of the museum and into the light. We're checking

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