This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

Modernist design and funerary customs meet Spartan traditions in this one-of-a-kind graveyard.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.