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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

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

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

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

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

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

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

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

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

This museum honors one of Cedartown's favorite sons.

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.