This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

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

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

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

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

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.