Largest man-made excavation on earth!

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Venice's island of the dead.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The magic's in the hole!

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Orcas on display and in the water.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.