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Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.