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

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.