A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

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

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

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

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

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

These enigmatic ruins continue to vex archaeologists.

An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

At Ramahyuck, the Gunaikurnai people were forced to trade their freedom and culture for protection. Today, a cemetery is all that remains of the site.

A nearly lost tribute to an 11-year-old boy killed during a World War I homecoming parade.