A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.