This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

This camera store in Milan holds one of Europe’s largest collections of luxury-antique cameras.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

A museum with a window view of the Himalayas and an on-site climbing wall.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.

This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

This house is one of the most colorful in the country, and is the last remaining example of a historic villa.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.