Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.