Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This is the house that spite built.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.