An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.