These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

The patch of land below the memorial was gifted by the British to the United States.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

An Italian hillside ghost town.