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

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The middle finger of modernity.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.