Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

New York's oldest magic store.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."