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This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.