These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

A magical oasis in the middle of the Negev Desert.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."