Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.