Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

The first hospital in the New World.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.