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Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.