In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.