The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

This stretch of Canadian road was named after a nickname that stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.