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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.