An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.