This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

A peculiar idol to the Hindu King of Ghosts demands fine leather footwear in exchange for warding off evil.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.