The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

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

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

Every Friday, Sufi dervishes whirl around the tomb in a trance-like state as part of a sacred ritual called dhikr.

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Launchpad for the US military’s dead mouse operation to battle millions of snakes.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

These ancient monoliths make up one of the largest archaeological sites in Palau.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

A lineup of a dozen or so Japanese light tanks from WWII.

Giant money stones of Yap.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.

Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.