Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

An underground city of salt.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.