The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Remarkable medieval wall paintings decorate this 12th-century, dog-friendly church.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A series of magical limestone formations along the coastline of the country island of Antigua.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.