This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.