Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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

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

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

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

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

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.