Edinburgh, Scotland
Grave of 'The Great Lafayette'
A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Tandil, Argentina
A replica of a beloved, delicately-balanced granite boulder.
Klaipėda, Lithuania
A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.
Ouadane, Mauritania
This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.
Mérida, Mexico
One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.
Slack Head, England
These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.
Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Želízy, Czechia
Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Hunza Nagar, Pakistan
This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Verona, Italy
It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.
Beijing, China
The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.
Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
For centuries, this large Roman villa remained hidden thanks to the eruption that buried nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.