A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

A significant cache of prehistoric valuables is on display in an unassuming museum tucked inside a town hall.