Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Home of the "true" equator.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The middle finger of modernity.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.