Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

The museum is home to four times as many lamps as there are people in town.

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.