This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.