This archipelago homestead-turned-museum has remained the same since its last resident, born in 1897, died in 1973.

The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

This imposing castle has stood for nearly a thousand years.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.

Designed to commemorate the king's coronation.

An old mining site that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This very ornate Victorian gateway seems completely out of place in the modern industrial city of Warrington.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

A 14th-century abbey founded by a forest-loving order of monks now sits in the center of a pristine nature preserve.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

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

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.