The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"