The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Soak up some local history in this restored Edwardian era swimming pool.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.