Bomarzo, Italy
The Monsters of Bomarzo
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
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Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Grapevine, Texas
Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.
Zarcero, Costa Rica
This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.
Willoughby Hills, Ohio
Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.
Kingston, Arkansas
This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.
Turda, Romania
This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.
Tampa, Florida
This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.
Ridgedale, Missouri
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.
New Port Richey, Florida
Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.
Durango, Colorado
This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.
Hallandale Beach, Florida
The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.
Atlanta, Georgia
This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.
Warminster, England
The longest hedge maze in the world.
Wallachia, Romania
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
Alpharetta, Georgia
A man's home is his castle.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
St. Petersburg, Florida
This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.
Marco Island, Florida
An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.
Chicago, Illinois
Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.