Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.