"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The coldest city in the world.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.