River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A science teacher's dream.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.