This historic prison is the oldest in Ontario and the second oldest in Canada.

This palace offers an 18th-century European take on Chinese design and architecture.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A haunting memorial to those who lost their lives to the Nazi regime lies hidden in the woods.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

On the grounds of a game lodge, a path decorated with the skulls of all kinds of animals.

Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.

A major Japanese execution ground site from the Middle Ages.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.

The accidental discovery of this gilt bronze head led archaeologists to find the Roman Baths in the city of Bath

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Serbia.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Deep in the Ocala National Forest, a lonesome 19th-century grave.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

A simple memorial between a ball field and a skate park honors 21 men lost in a horrific mining accident.