Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

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

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."