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After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

This region of Slovakia boasts some of the most plentiful opal mines in the world.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

The only structure in a remote mountain pass, these colorful cubes are visible from miles away.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.