A man's home is his castle.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.