Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

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

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

What appears to be an ancient Roman temple is actually a Catholic church.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

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

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.