Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.