The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

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

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

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

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

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

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.

Museum of Fijian history, including its former tradition of cannibalism.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.