Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.