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

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.