In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

Climbing to the top of the cathedral's bell tower offers sweeping views of these medieval ruins.

This modern labyrinth lies in the shadow of a ruined medieval castle.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.