An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

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

What if the cure for all that ails you was as simple as repeated exposure to low-dose radon?

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

A dragon-shaped fountain that is said to dispense healing water—unless you're evil.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.