Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.