Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.