This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

These colonial murals are a fascinating hybrid of Spanish and Indigenous aesthetics.