This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.