On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

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

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.