Places potatolover Wants to Go

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

Sited in an Inner Mongolian desert are the remnants of an important trade stop along the Silk Road.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.