The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.