A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.