Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The unique location where the former president was rapidly sworn in.

A symbol of Texas pride.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.