A modest stone circle in North Wales.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.