Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.