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Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.