The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.