This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

This bridge over the River Cuale leads to a neighborhood that was once an escape for Hollywood's elite.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.