A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

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

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

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

The smallest country in the world.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.