This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.