This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.