A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

A 14th-century abbey founded by a forest-loving order of monks now sits in the center of a pristine nature preserve.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

Sometimes known as the little Niagara Falls of the Philippines.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

The longest sea beach in the world can be found on the southern coast of Brazil.

A stately castle in the northern Italian countryside has been restored after years of neglect.

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

During World War II, a number of important sculptures and paintings were moved to this castle for safekeeping.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

Nature puts on a spectacular show at this blowhole on the eastern side of Gran Canaria.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Inside the small garden of two mid-century apartment buildings stands a centuries-old bell tower, separated from its original church and hidden from view.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.

Europe's only Temple of Mithras located in a natural cave.