This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.