This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.