Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.