Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

This 19th-century hotel and spa hosted famous guests like like the Vanderbilt family, William Waldorf Astor, Helen Keller, and Jay Gould.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This magnificent white pagoda was constructed to resemble a sacred Buddhist mountain.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

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

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.