Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.