This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

The building that houses this museum is as historic as its collection.

Built by the Portuguese colonists in the early 16th century, this fort is one of the oldest European structure in Asia.

This fort dates back to 1588 and was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch, and English and sits prominently on the Indian Ocean where azure water lap the coast.

The remains of a former colonial fort on a stretch of beach that is occasionally visited by crocodiles.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The final resting place of one of the most important figures in the world of tea.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.