Rochester, New York
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
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Rochester, New York
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
Helensburgh, Australia
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
Manzanares el Real, Spain
This species of wild goat stars in witchy legends and frolics among the park's eerie rock formations.
Washington, D.C.
A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.
Washington, D.C.
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.
Sparta, Greece
The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.
Birsay, Scotland
This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Lostwithiel, England
The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.
Huelva, Spain
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.
Washington, D.C.
Home to items never before seen by the public.
Washington, D.C.
A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.
Washington, D.C.
A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.
Washington, D.C.
A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.
Coverham, England
A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
Dijon, France
For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.
Heimaey, Iceland
Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
London, England
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.