Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

A collection of crumbling mansions stand as a reminder of a more prosperous time in this Indian village.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

This experiment in the lifespan of seeds will take a century before it is complete.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.