A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.