The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.