A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

Grab a slice of pizza next to the remains of the "human monkey" who ran for mayor.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.