The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

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

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.