Skeletons have been dancing people to their graves since at least 1424.
One challenge: finding actors who speak Cornish.
Once an important Silk Road stop, a fortified Uzbek city specializes in bright green noodles.
The smallest restaurant in the world.
These ancient mechanisms were way ahead of their time.
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”
This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.
The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.
Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.
A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
These austere churches mix Nordic dragons with Christian saints.
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.
One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.
Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”
Chinese elementary school beneath a rocky overhang.
The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.
Thousands died in 1986 when the crater lake unleashed a cloud of toxic gas. Could it happen again?
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
A vitamin deficiency may have changed the course of a continent's history.
Drag kings, queer burlesque, and bathhouses abounded.
Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.
Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”
Remains of an abandoned coral city.
The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.
Roland, court minstrel to 12th century English king Henry II, probably had many talents.
Secret symbols aplenty.
This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.
The Affair of the Poisons was one to remember.
This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.
This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.
This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.
This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.
A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
"Resting on right cheek: You are too willing."
