Lima, Peru
The Room of 10,000 Ancient Skulls
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
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Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.
London, England
Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
London, England
The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
London, England
The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
London, England
A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Hallstatt, Austria
The world's oldest known salt mine.
Vienna, Austria
Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.
Vienna, Austria
Op-art architecture designed for happiness.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Medicine Hat, Alberta
A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.
Banff, Alberta
Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.
Bellevue, Alberta
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.