The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

A 15th-century monumental Latin inscription on this house celebrates Lorenzo Manilio's love for Rome.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

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

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

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

This ancient Roman arch misled treasure hunters for centuries.

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

A rare example of a medieval house in Rome adorned with a melancholic inscription.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

This medieval church in Rome was almost destroyed following a terrorist attack in 1993.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.