Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.