These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

A mummified Spanish monk found in the walls of an Ecuadorian church, alongside a mummified mouse.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.