A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."