Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

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

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.