Beijing, China
Ming Dynasty Tombs
Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.
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Beijing, China
Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.
Harbin, China
One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.
Chongqing, China
The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
Panjin Shi, China
A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.
La Palma, Spain
Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.
Titulcia, Spain
Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.
Madrid, Spain
The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.
Paris, France
Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.
Paris, France
Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.
Paris, France
A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
London, England
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
London, England
An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.
London, England
This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.
London, England
Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.
London, England
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
London, England
A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.
Medford, Massachusetts
Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.
Windsor, Connecticut
Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.