This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

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

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.