This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

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

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

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

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

"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."

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.