Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.