Évora, Portugal
Portugal’s Chapel of Bones
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
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Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Lisbon, Portugal
This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Buffalo, New York
An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.
Le Roy, New York
The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.
Kinderhook, New York
At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.
Cologne, Germany
Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.
Quincy, Massachusetts
The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."
Providence, Rhode Island
Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.
Milan, Italy
This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.
Milan, Italy
This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.
London, England
Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.
London, England
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
London, England
England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.
London, England
One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.
London, England
A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.
Inverkeithing, Scotland
A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.