This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.