The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

A tidal bore with its own festival.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.