Hotels

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.