On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

Jumping-off point for a climb up Mt. Everest is the most dangerous airport in the world.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.