A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.