This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

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

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

A small village in two different countries.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.