One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Paul McCartney, Joy Division, and many others created era-defining music at this former recording studio.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

A grand Wetherspoon pub set in a former opera house dating back to 1902.

A 16th-century footpath said to be haunted by a young girl that died trapped within its misshapen old house.

Reportedly the "most handsome" market cross in Scotland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.