El Paso, Texas
John Wesley Hardin's Grave
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
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El Paso, Texas
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
El Paso, Texas
The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.
El Paso, Texas
A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Florence, Italy
Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.
Florence, Italy
In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.
Florence, Italy
A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Florence, Italy
The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
Arlington, Virginia
Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Giessen, Germany
A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.
Giessen, Germany
Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.