The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.