Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.