One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

The remains of Canada's earliest Chinese pioneers are interred along this picturesque point.

This stately Victorian-era burial ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean is home to the graves of some of British Columbia's most famous figures.

A former electric substation that was converted into a magnificent mansion.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

Housed in an old British jail, this spot serves up Georgian, Russian, and Ukrainian specialities with a side of Turkish history.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.