An 18th-century battery complete with original kitchen and garrison.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

Step into the courtroom to learn details of the only case in history where ghostly testimony led to a murderer's conviction.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

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

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.