Vienna, Austria
Stephansdom Crypt
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
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Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Columbus Junction, Iowa
A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Amiens, France
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Haiti
This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.
Nohijai Pançakent, Tajikistan
The remains of an ancient city-state along the Silk Road.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.
Beijing, China
The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Mount Vernon, Iowa
A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.
Iowa City, Iowa
A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.
Arcola, Illinois
You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Chhatarpur, India
Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Bayeux, France
This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.
Örencik, Turkey
This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.
Kayadere, Turkey
Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.
Georgia
Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.