Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

World's most expensive home.

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.