The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.