This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

The centuries old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.