This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

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

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

World's largest Christmas store.

Even though some of the buildings date back to the Victorian era, this research institute is still involved in cutting-edge astronomy research.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.