“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.