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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.