The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.