This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.