Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

This fortress-like monastery is covered with intricate frescoes.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

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

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.