A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.