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

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Some of the world's largest letters are carved into the limestone bedrock of the Nullarbor Plain.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A beautiful art space and unusual mini-hotel hidden in the city center of Dnipro.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.