Most Recent Places

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.