A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.