Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This castle resides in a valley known for immense bloodshed during the Middle Ages.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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 hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."