The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.