Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.