Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

This Welsh dockyard was the site of the not-so-secret construction of the Millennium Falcon for the original Star Wars trilogy.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.