This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

This ruined castle perched atop a rocky peak is a great place for a hike.

A mansion where wonders of Christmas are celebrated all year long.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.