Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.