Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

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

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

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