A student driver's nightmare.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.