Avebury, England
The Red Lion
The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.
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Avebury, England
The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.
Cherhill, England
The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.
San Antonio, Texas
Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.
Vienna, Austria
Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.
Pisa, Italy
The mysterious “claw marks” said to be left by the Devil on Pisa’s famous cathedral.
Rome, Italy
Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.
Rome, Italy
This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.
Rome, Italy
Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.
Venice, Italy
An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Baku, Azerbaijan
A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.
Warsaw, Poland
A massive mammoth bone has been on display inside this church since the 18th century.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.
Houston, Texas
Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.
Houston, Texas
Local arts organization founded in a former church.
Austin, Texas
The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.
Chicago, Illinois
The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.
Chicago, Illinois
Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.