The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

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

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.