A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

There is one corporation registered for every three square feet of space in this inconspicuous office building.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.