This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A towering tribute to the Godfather of Soul.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

At this privately owned collection, conflicts are humanized through soldiers’ personal belongings.

These ornate, fish-shaped water spouts guard Savannah’s historic facades.

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

These crumbling monastery ruins inspired a master of German Romanticism.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

New York's transit system peddles terrible food in limited windows—this restaurant is a rare exception.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.