Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This nightmarish children's plaything was left grotesque to help kids conquer their fear.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This is the house that spite built.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.