The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.