The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An opulent testament to the boom-and-bust history of industry in north central Indiana.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.