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

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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