Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.