Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

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

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The middle finger of modernity.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.