Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.