Roman-era ships unearthed...

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

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

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Ancient man-made caves underneath small town Belgium.