This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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