A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The tallest dam in Montana and top 10 in the country.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

These floating gardens show what Mexico City used to look during the Aztec Empire.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.