A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.