"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 lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.