North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

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

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.