Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Oldest building in California still in use.