According to a gruesome legend, an architect sacrificed his wife to build this spectacular, 16th-century cathedral.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

The best-preserved beehive tombs in Oman with spectacular backdrop.

The alleged vampires after which these islets are named may have actually been plague victims.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.