A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.