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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

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

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

Bohol's mysterious brown hills.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.