This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.