Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.