This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

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

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.