The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

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

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.