This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.