After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.