Council Bluffs, Iowa
Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
Avalon, California
Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.
Avalon, California
A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.
Ensenada, Mexico
Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.
Palenque, Mexico
After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.
Palenque, Mexico
The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.
Kansas City, Kansas
This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Palenque, Mexico
An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.
Villahermosa, Mexico
This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.
Campeche, Mexico
The walls of a colonial-era fort encircle a small, tropical assortment of plant life.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.
Mérida, Mexico
Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.
Oranienburg, Germany
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Büren, Germany
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Detmold, Germany
This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.
Bielefeld, Germany
This viaduct serves as a reminder of World War II.