How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.