This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This hotel is an amazing example of the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura movement.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This fresco-covered medieval monastery hangs from the side of a steep cliff.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.