A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

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

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

At this bayside marina, enormous wild tarpon jump out of the water to snatch fish from visitors’ hands.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

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

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.