The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

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

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.