A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

A larger-than-life house of cards stands outside the house of a former fashion designer.