This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.