The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."