These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.