On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

An underground city of salt.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.