Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

600 stumps, branches, and trunks of different shapes and sizes.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.