Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

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

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.