Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A beautiful example of 18th-century engineering still standing tall.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

This giant bronze image of Christopher Columbus embarked on a voyage of its own.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

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

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