This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Locals say Williams's ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

On top of a hill, this Catholic church overlooks the most Catholic island in Greece.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.