Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.