This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

A collection of heirloom roses tucked in a spectacularly beautiful botanical garden on Lake Atitlan.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.