A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

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

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.