These nearly 500-year-old scenes are largely faded by the ravages of time, yet still maintain their power to horrify.

The tallest building in the Republic of the Congo is a source of pride despite its towering maintenance costs.

The forgotten remains of the first steamship that launched on Lake Tanganyika.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

A student driver's nightmare.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.