This life-sized sculpture has gained a reputation for bringing luck to anybody who touches it.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

This mysterious Bronze Age standing stone has become a place where couples profess their love.

This phallic temple was erected in the forest to honor the tragic death of a samurai lord's son.

Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

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

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

The oldest candy store in the world has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.