Rome, Italy
Zuccari Palace
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
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Rome, Italy
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Florence, Italy
More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.
Rome, Italy
A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.
Rome, Italy
Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.
Rome, Italy
Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Old Homosassa, Florida
Explore the history of printing in this unique museum owned by a longtime printer.
Homosassa, Florida
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
Homosassa, Florida
Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.
Crystal River, Florida
This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.
Crystal River, Florida
The mounds on this coastal archaeological site reveal the history of the land’s first inhabitants.
Winter Garden, Florida
An unsuspecting brick building outside Orlando houses decades of train ephemera.
Winter Park, Florida
An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Aquiraz, Brazil
From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.
New York, New York
The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.
New York, New York
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
New York, New York
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
New York, New York
A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.
Brooklyn, New York
These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.
Brooklyn, New York
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
Brooklyn, New York
New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.