The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.