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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

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

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

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

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

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.