Places BerylliumConquest Wants to Go

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Unbeknownst to many, this fountain was erected as a tomb and still holds the remains of a Frenchman.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.