British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

A restored World War II Churchill Mark VII Tank now stands guard in Carrickfergus.

This Victorian-era walkway is just one of the many 19th-century treasures in Whitehead.

A boulder in the Churchyard of Down Cathedral marks the legendary burial place of "The Apostle of Ireland."

These murals stand as reminders to the troubled history of this Northern Ireland city.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.