The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Destructive children, start your engines.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.