A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

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

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.