Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Made famous by 'Star Wars,' these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

This large neolithic tomb, also known as Greengraves, is hidden off a Northern Irish road.

Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

Visit an imposing 13th-century Transylvanian citadel lurking not far from the region's more heavily touristed attractions.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Off the Florida coast, a whimsical world of marine sculptures are revitalizing coral reefs.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.