The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

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

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

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

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

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.