The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.