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 medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

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

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.