More gold than anywhere else, ever.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.