J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.