Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Evidence from a brutal 1880s murder is on display at this former infirmary house.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.