This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

Built by a king and rebuilt by an emperor, this aqueduct transported water for 1,200 years to this ancient Mediterranean hub.

This Roman arena once played host to bloody gladiatorial battles.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

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