The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

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

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

"All Mountains - All The Time."

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.