This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.