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360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.