The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.