Vienna, Austria
Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
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Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Glendale, California
An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.
Alland, Austria
Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Silkeborg, Denmark
Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.
Los Angeles, California
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Plouha, France
Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Seychelles
A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Juan Fernández, Chile
Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Big Major Cay, Bahamas
In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Takehara, Japan
Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Galway, Ireland
The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.