One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

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

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

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

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.