An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.