Ellicott City, Maryland
St. Mary's College
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
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Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.
Jackson, Wyoming
One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.
Tokyo, Japan
The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.
Madagascar
This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.
Paulilatino, Italy
This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.
Reims, France
Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.
Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.
Kaleüçağız Köyü, Turkey
Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Green Gables, Prince Edward Island
Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Florence, Italy
Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.
Blois, France
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Florence, Italy
Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.
Blois, France
Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.