Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

America's first National Historic Landmark is a 100-foot tall obelisk and gravesite dedicated to the only casualty of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.