Sleepy Hollow, New York
Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
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Sleepy Hollow, New York
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Stra, Italy
A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.
Naples, Italy
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Rome, Italy
The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Pasco, Peru
Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Birmingham, England
This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.
Meknes, Morocco
Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Nubia, Egypt
Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.