These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A museum and research center dedicated to preserving the history of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

One of the largest and most scenic of Bangladesh's tea gardens.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.