Vienna, Austria
Kunstkammer Wien
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
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Vienna, Austria
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
Alland, Austria
Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.
Hallstatt, Austria
The world's oldest known salt mine.
Krong Battambang, Cambodia
A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Lido, Italy
The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Western Shore, Nova Scotia
Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.
Green Gables, Prince Edward Island
Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.
Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island
Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.
Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador
This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.
Rome, Italy
A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
Keswick, England
Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.
Kerry, Ireland
This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.
Galway, Ireland
An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.
Boston, Massachusetts
An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.