An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.