The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.