The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.